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Spinoff story
Communication Devices Ease Contact with Commercial Spacecraft
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
As part of an overhaul of the ISS communications system, Johnson Space Center contracted Colorado Springs-based AMERGINT Technologies to build a new data processor for Mission Control to receive data from the space station. The company was developing its reconfigurable SOFTLINK architecture of software devices, each of which carries out a specific function. Now AMERGINT’s commercial offering benefits from the rigorous testing, security requirements, and the many new software devices it had to create to carry out the work.