Missile Defense Agency Selects Space Micro for Advanced Interceptor Miniature Avionics

SAN DIEGO, CA – May 24, 2011 – Space Micro Inc, an innovator of radiation hardened microelectronics for space applications, announced today that it has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the Missile Defense Agency. The contract is to dramatically reduce the Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) of a radiation hard miniature image processing system (MIPS) for MDA interceptors using a combination of novel techniques.

The product resulting from this R&D will potentially meet the needs of many MDA interceptors and DoD satellites and will ride the commercial miniaturization revolution. Space Micro will build upon and leverage their existing heritage space hardware used for TacSat2 imaging, and the ORS-1 image processing system, the IPC5000™.

David J. Strobel, CEO at Space Micro, said “this new SBIR will further develop our existing suite of miniaturized, affordable, low SWAP electronics and insert into next generation missile programs.”

About Space Micro Inc.

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 space radiation hardened line of radiation hardened computers. These space computers include the Proton200k™ DSP-based RH SBC, Proton300k™ SRAM-based reconfigurable space computer (RH RCC), and Proton400k-L™ multi-core PowerPC-based RH SBC.  In addition to satellite computers, Space Micro offers satellite communications equipment such as Space-Ground Link System (µSGLS™ / RH SGLS / RH SGLS-USB / µSTDN™ / RH STDN transponders), 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™ Avionics Suite, TTMR™ (Time Triple Modular Redundancy), H-CORE™ circuitry for Single Events Functional Interrupt (SEFI) mitigation, SEMS™ Space Weather Box and Divert Attitude Control System (RH DACS).  Space Micro is an employee-owned company based in San Diego, CA, USA

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