Space Micro's Proton100k Computer Launched Into Space.Launch of TacSat-2 Satellite a Success SAN DIEGO -- Space Micro Inc The Space Micro Inc (SMI) is a high technology firm with a special focus on space and military applications. Background Founded in 2002, Space Micro Inc. is a privately held, employee-owned company, with headquarters in San Diego, California, USA. . announced today that its Proton100k(TM) Space Computer was launched successfully aboard the TacSat-2 Satellite on December 16 at 7 a.m., EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy from Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops, VA. The Proton100k(TM) Radiation Hardened Single Board Computer (RH SBC) is the instrument computer of the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) RoadRunner On-board Processing Experiment (ROPE), performing data management and processing of focal plane array data. ROPE is one of 11 on-board instrument packages that range from Enhanced Commercial Imager to Integrated GPS Occultation occultation (ŏk'əltā`shən), in astronomy, eclipse of one celestial body by another, e.g., when the moon lies between a star and the earth. Occultations of stars by the moon are important in astronomy. Receiver (IGOR). Space Micro also supplied the 64 Gbit Solid State Recorder (SSR) which together made up the core of the on-board processing unit. The Proton100k(TM) is the first-generation design of a line of the fastest, low-power radiation-hardened computers available in the industry today. It is capable of 1,200 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. performance at a Single Event Upset (SEU) rate of 1E-4 unrecoverable errors/day using only 7-9 Watts of power. The Proton100k also has a total dose tolerance of >100 krad (Si). Protection from Single Event Upsets (SEUs) is achieved using Space Micro's patent-pending Time-Triple Modular Redundancy(TM) (TTMR) approach, while Single Event Functional Interrupts (SEFIs) are mitigated using the patent-pending H-Core(TM) (Hardened Core) technology. Similar techniques are used in Space Micro's second-generation computer, the Proton200k(TM), which offers 4,000 MIPS performance using only 5 Watts of power. About Space Micro Inc. Founded in 2002 as a satellite technology research and development company, Space Micro Inc. is a pioneer in providing radiation hardened design solutions for advanced electronic systems and microelectronics. Space Micro has developed the world's fastest low-power radiation hardened computers, the Proton100k(TM) and Proton200k(TM). Key government customers include NASA, Missile Defense Agency (MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics. ), the Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States , and the Air Force. Our management team includes two of the founders of Space Electronics Inc., an industry leader in satellite microelectronics. Space Micro Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , with facilities in San Diego, CA. |
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