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High-Speed On-Board Data Processing for Science Instruments (HOPS)
Completed
TRL 3
Description
• Enable high data volume missions, such as ASCENDS, ACE, and 3D-Winds, by reducing downlink data volume with onboard real time data processing • Reduce future mission development cost by maximizing the reuse of hardware and VHDL modules • Design and build a scalable and reconfigurable platform suitable for real time execution of computing intensive and high throughput rate algorithms • Implement real-time CO2 retrieval (applicable for ASCENDS) • Implement data reduction algorithms (applicable for ASCENDS, ACE, and 3D-Winds)
Details
| Technology area | Flight Computing and Avionics > Avionics Component Technologies > High-Performance Processors |
| Program | Earth Science (ESD) |
| Lead organization | NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC |
| Start date | 2012-04-01 |
| End date | 2015-05-31 |
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