Re:The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space
by bryananderson on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:31AM
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NASA has used Xilinx FPGAs on a number of missions (though still mostly smaller missions). They are doing so for precisely this reason: on-spacecraft computation for intensive tasks such as image processing.
Here’s the website for the SpaceCube platform (developed at NASA Goddard). This is a little out of date (I worked on flight software for a mission called STP-H6 which I don’t see listed here), but gives an idea of how this idea is slowly but surely gaining steam in NASA.
Here’s the website for the SpaceCube platform (developed at NASA Goddard). This is a little out of date (I worked on flight software for a mission called STP-H6 which I don’t see listed here), but gives an idea of how this idea is slowly but surely gaining steam in NASA.
https://spacecube.nasa.gov/