Ross Bannatyne, VORAGO Technologies

• Designing a rad-hard CubeSat onboard computer

  

  A CubeSat is a miniature satellite that conforms to a standard specification of 10 cm on each side and weighs no more than 1.33 kilograms. Often these cubes are concatenated to form larger structures. This standardization in satellite technology has provoked a significant growth in their use, as economies of scale in components, subsystems, launch equipment, and logistics have enabled many cost-effective new ventures.

  Ross Bannatyne VORAGO Technologies

• ARMed and ready

  Ross Bannatyne VORAGO Technologies

  While the rest of the engineering world has been developing embedded systems using the ARM microcontroller unit (MCU) architecture for many years, the high-reliability (hi-rel) market has been slow to adopt it. That is a pity because the biggest benefi...