First flight of new expendable Electron launcher uses Curtiss-Wright’s Space COTS data acquisition system to capture test data

The risk of failure for avionics equipment on-board spacecraft due to radiation exposure is a critical issue for launchers, re-entry vehicles, space habitats and satellites

Demo features Harris’s FACE conformant FliteScene® Digital Moving Map Software, Green Hills Software INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS and Curtiss-Wright SBC and Graphics cards for Embedded Avionics Applications

COTS-based IData Human Machine Interface (HMI) demonstration features FACE™ aligned LynxOS-178 2.2.4 RTCA/DO-178B Level A Safety Certified RTOS with Curtiss-Wright’s VPX3-131 single board computer (SBC) and XMC-715 AMD E4690 high-performance graphics processor.

Performance is all about eliminating bottlenecks to minimize latency and maximize throughput. To maximize overall system performance requires the fastest, most efficient processor-to-processor data paths.

Introducing the Smart Backplane subsystem (KAM/CSB/12U), a rugged multi-slot chassis designed specifically for data acquisition, data processing, and recording in radiation-intensive space environments.

Miniature network space data acquisition system ships to NASA's Orion

Demo highlights advantages of time partitioned/unified operating system approach for certified applications, using multicore INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS and RTGL OpenGL SC libraries running on OpenVPX SBC