United States of America As Represented by the Administrator of Nasa

Austin Lanham

Alessandro D Geist

Christopher Wilson

Cody Brewer

Nicholas Franconi

Noosha Haghani

Amri Hernandez-Pellerano

Robert Gheen

Michael Burns

Bradford Kercheval

James Fraction

Travis Wise

Shahana Pagen

Omar Haddad

Zachary Boblitt

Erik Laurila

An avionics system includes a plurality of card assemblies having a standard height and width, and a depth dependent on dimensions of components mounted on individual ones of the plurality of card assemblies, and a subset of the plurality of card assemblies selected according to their functionality and assembled together along their depth dimensions to form one or more modules having the standard height and width, wherein the one or more modules are distributable among available volumes within a spacecraft.

Modular unified avionics system

The present invention relates to a single-board solid state data recorder (SSDR) card configured for use in a 1U CubeSat payload form-factor multi-purpose architecture, which includes: a field programmable gate array (FPGA): a plurality of NAND storage banks of non-volatile NAND Flash storage, the plurality of NAND storage banks which store operational data, each of which is controlled by a NAND Flash controller which controls the signaling of the plurality of NAND storage banks and reading and writing to the plurality of NAND storage banks; and a plurality of SpaceWire nodes and a plurality of multi-gigabit transceivers which command the SSDR card and read/write data to the SSDR card; wherein the plurality of NAND Flash memory banks is independently controlled and independently powered.

Solid state data recorder (SSDR) for use with form-factor avionics systems

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