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Spinoff story

Cutting-Edge Computing Goes Spaceborne

A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.

About this technology

Overview

Hewlett Packard Enterprise of Spring, Texas, worked with Ames Research Center to send a computer to space that was radiation-hardened with software. Now the approach is making fast, low-cost radiation hardening available to commercial space companies, allowing the use of cutting-edge computers in space.