Abstract

The Maestro Flight Experiment (MFE) demonstrates the operation of a modern, many-core radiation hardened processor (the Maestro ITC) in space. The MFE executes diagnostics, performs image processing activities, addresses strategies for dealing with thermal and power constraints in orbit, and assesses the sensitivity of the processor to radiation exposure in low earth orbit. The MFE demonstrates a substantial advance in radiation hardened on-orbit computational performance, which is needed to handle the ever-increasing data load of modern imaging sensors and other orbital sensor systems.

Date

March 5, 2016

Authors

Craig Milo Rogers, David Barnhart, Stephen Crago

Conference

2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference

Pages

1-6

Publisher

IEEE