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SAN FRANCISCO – Ball Aerospace and Seagate Technology Holdings are working together to develop and test high-capacity commercial data processing and storage devices for spaceflight applications.
The companies are conducting laboratory demonstrations to determine how Seagate storage devices can be integrated with Ball spaceflight avionics and software.
[...] The two companies plan to conduct further testing of a Seagate storage device providing memory for a Ball payload on a small satellite in low Earth orbit in 2023.
The growth of the space sector along with surging demand for data processing and storage is attracting the attention of firms focused primarily on terrestrial markets.
“Lots of data is coming off focal planes and RF sensors,” Ellis said. “There are a lot of things that we can do onboard [satellites] if [they] can keep up with what the sensors are putting out. We can do a little bit of processing, downlink important things first, stack frames to get better signal-to-noise.”
(Score: 2) by Username on Monday August 22 2022, @02:09PM (1 child)
I've never worked on any of their stuff, not sure why they can't just use those little nand ssds that Raytheon, ViaSat and etc use. I forget the company name that makes them, but I'll remember next time I'm in the shower, and by then I'll have forgotten why i was thinking of them.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday August 23 2022, @12:59PM
Perhaps because the devices you are talking about are not the same as the "high-capacity commercial data processing and storage devices" that they are considering developing.
If your claim had any value we would have stopped developing storage devices when we had 256-byte chips back in the 1970s. After all, why can't we just continue to use them? But it seems that somebody decided to continue development so that today we can have multi-gigabytes inside consumer devices like telephones etc.
To do a lot more processing in the satellites themselves they are going to need more storage devices that can operate reliably in that particular environment for extended periods of time. It is not like somebody is going to pop along and just change a stick of memory if there is a problem.