DARPA F6 Contract Awarded to Space Micro for “Satellite Interoperability for Microwave Access (SiMAX) Inter-Module Cluster Communication System”

SAN DIEGO, CA – June 13, 2011 – Space Micro announced today that it has been selected by DARPA as a Prime Contractor for the Inter-Satellite Communications portion of the F6 program. This contract is a multi-year, multi-phase award for $13.7M over 30 months, if all milestones are awarded. Space Micro is leading an integrated team which includes: Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, CA; Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), Pasadena, CA; and L3 Communications (IEC), Anaheim, CA. Space Micro’s team will develop the communications architecture and hardware to enable cross linking at K-band frequencies. The Space Micro team will develop a new standard for inter-satellite data links that will allow interoperability of spacecraft in secure environments and at significant range. Space Micro’s F6 Program Manager David R. Czajkowski said “We are pleased to lead this superb team to meet DARPA’s challenging satellite cluster inter-communication needs.”

The goal of the System F6 program is to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of fractionated space architectures, where the functionality traditionally co-resident within a single, large, “monolithic” satellite is delivered by a cluster of wirelessly-interconnected modules capable of sharing their resources. This architecture enhances the adaptability and survivability of space systems while also shortening development timelines and reducing the barrier-to-entry for participation in secure space applications.

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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