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Space

Projects - Space
A NASA satellite in low-earth orbit, We are supporting NASA spacecraft with custom FPGA designs, modeling and simulation, and test bench development.

FPGA Code Development & Testing for Space Robotics

Our team has partnered with small businesses to support a variety of NASA satellite, spacecraft, and planetary exploration programs with field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design and testing. We are proud to have supported Goddard's On-orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing-1 (OSAM-1) satellite program, formerly known as the Restore-L Mission. 

 

Our team used model based systems engineering to develop FPGA test bench code for the high power motor controller on OSAM-1's robotic arm. We also performed software profiling calculations through a combination of bench testing, Verilog test bench sims, and MATLAB modeling.

 

OSAM-1 is scheduled for launch in 2024 and will serve as a test demonstration satellite for on-orbit satellite maintenance and life extension. NASA will use OSAM-1 to conduct on-orbit satellite refueling operations for the first time in history. 

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In other space work, our FPGA engineers developed FPGA test code for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Europa Lander and Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Pod (MEP) program.

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