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Program Update: NASA DSI PDR Passed

bheavey — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:16:00 +0000

We’re excited to have passed the preliminary design review (PDR) milestone in our work developing the digital subsystem to run Aloft Sensing, Inc.‘s embedded PNT algorithm. Now it’s time to start implementing! In phase 1, we’ll build out the signal processing FPGA firmware, validating it first through simulation and then running on evaluation hardware. After that, […]

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Delivery: JPL CRISTAL/CIMR Digital Backend Design

bheavey — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:14:00 +0000

October 24, 2022 – Design review passed and final delivery released to JPL for the multi-mission (CRISTAL & CIMR) digital back-end (DBE) engineering model hardware. This compact module, destined for space flight, carries an FPGA, two high performance ADCs, a standalone processor and a full compliment of memories and interfaces. It was a pleasure working […]

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Program Update: CRISTAL/CIMR DBE Schematics

bheavey — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 22:06:00 +0000

September 6, 2022 – Customer schematic review passed! This particular design is for a space-based radiometer digital backend. The hardware contains four 3.2 GSPS ADC channels, JESD interfaces linking the ADCs to an FPGA, Xilinx’s Kintex KU060, microprocessor, telemetry, spacecraft/instrument interfaces and a full complement of support components. This design is our second centered around […]

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Contract Award: NASA Decadal Survey Incubator

bheavey — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:01:00 +0000

August 23, 2022 – Wide Swath Research is excited to be working with Aloft Sensing, Inc. as a co-investigator on “Embedded PNT Module for Distributed Radar Sensing” a program recently awarded by NASA’s ESTO office as a part of its 2021 Decadal Survey Incubation Program (DSI-21). To learn more about the program objectives, take a look at NASA’s […]

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Contract Award: JPL VISAR Onboard Processor

bheavey — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:48:00 +0000

August 1, 2022 – Wide Swath Research was awarded a contract by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop the firmware for the Venus Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (VISAR) onboard processor. We’re very excited to contribute to this important science, to play a part in the international development team and to have our footprint on a Venus mission! […]

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Contract Award: JPL CIMR/CRISTAL Programs

bheavey — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:37:00 +0000

June 22, 2022 – Wide Swath Research was awarded a contract by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design an engineering model (EM) for the Spectrometer Digital Backend (DBE) suitable for both Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) and Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) programs. Below are links with details on each program: CRISTAL […]

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