Space Micro Inc. Overview
Space Micro Inc specializes in payload and communications equipment for satellites, and is a pioneer and leader in technologies that enable Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronic devices to be deployed in space. Radiation in space is damaging to electronics. Space Micro has developed patented technologies to mitigate radiation effects on state-of-art commercial electronics. Space Micro offers space-qualified radiation hardened microelectronics, from radiation hardened by design (RHBD) technologies to space rated single board computers (RH SBC). Space Micro offers the world’s fastest line of space radiation hardened computers. These rad hard space computers include the Proton200k™ DSP-based RH SBC (as well as the triple-core Proton200k-3X™), Proton300k™ reconfigurable FPGA space computer (RH RCC), and Proton400k™ multi-core PowerPC-based RH SBC. In addition to satellite computers, Space Micro offers satellite communications equipment such as a micro radiation hardened software defined radio (µSDR™), space qualified flash memory, Space-Ground Link System transponders (µSGLS™), Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network S-band transponders (µSTDN™), Ka-band transmitter (µKa™ Wide Band Radiation Hardened Transmitter), X/UHF/VHF-Band transponders, and power amplifiers (RH PA) and custom boxes. Other Space Micro developments include ProtonX-Box™ modular avionics suites, TTMR™ (Time Triple Modular Redundancy) for single event upset (SEU) mitigation , H-CORE™ circuitry for single events functional interrupt (SEFI) mitigation, radiation hardened forward error correction chips, and radiation hardened Divert Attitude Control System (RH DACS). Space Micro is an employee-owned company based in San Diego, CA, USA.
Space Micro is completing research in design solutions for single event effects (SEE) in microelectronics, plus methods for improving single event effects performance of high performance space computers, for several companies and government agencies. Clients include NASA, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). In addition to radiationed hardened electronics, Space Micro also designs novel materials and non-destructive evaluation techniques in the Advanced Materials Division. Our management team includes two of the founders of Space Electronics Inc., an industry leader in satellite microelectronics.