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Completed TRL 4 (started at 4, targeting 4)
This project expanded the SpaceCube family catalog of electronics cards, with a new design featuring the Cobham Gaisler GR740 Quad-Core LEON4 SPARC V8 processor at a convenient 1U CubeSat size. This design conforms to the NASA Goddard CubeSat Card Specification (CS2) and is designed to be a dedicated hard-core processor option for the NASA Goddard Modular Architecture for a Resilient Extensible SmallSat (MARES). This card will provide a reliable, radiation-hardened processing capability to complement other reconfigurable architectures of MARES. Combined with other NASA CS2 cards, the architecture would provide significantly higher performance in a miniaturized, low SWAP-C (Size, Weight, Power, and Cost) package for scalable mission sizes.
This project expanded the SpaceCube family catalog of electronics cards, with a new design featuring the Cobham Gaisler GR740 Quad-Core LEON4 SPARC V8 processor at a convenient 1U CubeSat size. This design conforms to the NASA Goddard CubeSat Card Specification (CS2) and is designed to be a dedicated hard-core processor option for the NASA Goddard Modular Architecture for a Resilient Extensible SmallSat (MARES). This card will provide a reliable, radiation-hardened processing capability to complement other reconfigurable architectures of MARES. Combined with other NASA CS2 cards, the architecture would provide significantly higher performance in a miniaturized, low SWAP-C (Size, Weight, Power, and Cost) package for scalable mission sizes.
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