Another successful trip for STAR-Dundee exhibiting at the 29th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
Despite the attendance being low from the absence of NASA and other US Government bodies, a direct result of US budget sequestration, and the appearance of some late winter storms that saw outside temperatures drop to -13 degrees Celsius, the quality of the visitors to our stand was again high including a discussion with Lt. Governor of Colorado Joseph Garcia attending as co-chair of the Colorado Space Coalition.
Exhibiting at the NSS provided the first forum for us to introduce SpaceFibre to existing SpaceWire users and newcomers to SpaceWire technologies. SpaceFibre produced great interest with its ability to provide Gigabit bandwidths for data transfer on-board spacecraft, especially when backed with QoS mechanisms and much improved fault tolerance techniques.
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8 February 2013
STAR-Dundee hosted a collaboration of engineers to validate a significant milestone in the SpaceFibre development.
A delegation of Engineers from NTSpace, NEC, MELCO and Osaka University travelled to STAR-House to join STAR-Dundee engineers to test and validate the interoperability of independent implementations of SpaceFibre CODEC IP cores. This milestone is a key turning point in the project and a significant step towards bringing gigabit data rates to satellites and spacecraft to meet the increasing demands of ever-more sophisticated technological advances of on-board instrumentation. The 10 fold increase in speed over the current SpaceWire standard still maintains the SpaceWire ethos of high reliability, low power and usability.
SpaceFibre is a very high-speed serial data-link being developed by the University of Dundee for ESA which is intended for use in data-handling networks for high data-rate payloads. SpaceFibre is able to operate over fibre-optic and copper cable and support data rates of 2 Gbit/s in the near future and up to 5 Gbit/s long-term. It aims to complement the capabilities of the widely used SpaceWire onboard networking standard: improving the data rate by a factor of 10, reducing the cable mass by a factor of four and providing galvanic isolation. Multi-laning improves the data-rate further to well over 20 Gbits/s.
SpaceFibre interface, SpaceWire to SpaceFibre Bridge, and SpaceFibre link analysis tools are available from STAR-Dundee Ltd.
21 December 2012
In the year that saw STAR-Dundee move into our own bespoke premises and adding to the celebrations of our 10th year since the company was formed, Steve Parkes has been honoured by the Royal Aeronautical Society in awarding him a Specialist Bronze Award for his instrumental role in the inception, development and continuing success of the SpaceWire Standard.
The Society's Specialist Bronze Awards are presented for work of merit which has led to advances in specialist disciplines in the aerospace industry.
Receiving the award from Phil Boyle, President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Steve said, "I am honoured to receive this award in recognition of the research I have had the pleasure to lead over the past 15 years. My thanks and appreciation goes to the members of my research team within the University of Dundee and STAR-Dundee, and to my colleagues across the world, who together made winning this award possible."
Dr Philippe Armbruster, Head of the European Space Agency's Data Systems Division said that "Professor Steve Parkes is well known to the European Space Agency for his numerous contributions to the work of its Technical Centre (ESTEC). He has been instrumental in the development of the SpaceWire concept, from its inception to its vast deployment within satellite on-board data handling sub-systems."
Prof Tadayuki Takahashi of the Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency, JAXA, said "Professor Steve Parkes is the leader of the SpaceWire activity in the world. The sixth Japanese X-ray satellite, ASTRO-H, is a new generation of satellite that uses the SpaceWire architecture extensively. We appreciate his tremendous efforts to collect all requirements from the international community and to formalize as the standard."
2 November 2012
STAR-Dundee was delighted to attend JA2012 on 9th-12th Oct in Nagoya in support of JEPICO, our distributer in Japan.
Japan International Aerospace Exhibition 2012 (JA2012) is the biggest show in the Japanese Aerospace Industry calendar occurring once every 4 years. The exhibition also contained a Space pavilion that included a display of the impressive achievements of the Japanese space industry over the years.
Attending the show provided a great opportunity to speak to both existing and potential customers within the Japanese Aerospace and Space industries, and to exhibit STAR-Dundee equipment including our latest products the SpaceWire EGSE and SpaceWire RTC Development Kit .
4 September 2012
STAR-Dundee had a very successful visit to the 26th Annual Small Satellite Conference, 13-16 Aug 2012, Logan, UT, USA.
We would like to thank everyone who came to visit us at our exhibition stand. It was great to speak to existing customers, those new to SpaceWire and everyone in between. It was a particularly exciting time with the continued buzz following the successful Curiosity Mars landing and speaking to developers of equipment that contributed to the success.
We ran live demos of two of our newest developments: our most recently released SpaceWire RTC Development Kit and our soon-to-be-released SpaceWire EGSE. The SpaceWire RTC Development Kit is a combination of our SpaceWire Software Development Environment which supports our new SpaceWire RTC Unit based on ATMEL’s AT7913E; a flight ready LEON2-FT (SparcV8) based IC for interfacing on-board instruments. The SpaceWire EGSE is a highly capable test device designed to rapidly emulate or stimulate instruments and other SpaceWire enabled units, for which we are already taking orders.
For anyone who didn't get a chance to speak with us, you can find more information about our products on the Products page or contact a member of the team using the Contact page.
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