Los Alamos National Security, LLC

Triad National Security, LLC

John Michel

Nicholas Dallmann

Stephen Judd

Daniel Seitz

Michael Proicou

Jerry Delapp

Kevin Peter McCabe

Paul Stein

Donald Enemark

Steven Storms

Justin Tripp

Joseph Palmer

Dean Prichard

A space vehicle may have a modular board configuration that commonly uses some or all components and a common operating system for at least some of the boards. Each modular board may have its own dedicated processing, and processing loads may be distributed. The space vehicle may be reprogrammable, and may be launched without code that enables all functionality and/or components. Code errors may be detected and the space vehicle may be reset to a working code version to prevent system failure.

Modular space vehicle boards, control software, reprogramming, and failure recovery

A field unit and ground station may use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components and share a common architecture, where differences in functionality are governed by software. The field units and ground stations may be easy to deploy, relatively inexpensive, and be relatively easy to operate. A novel file system may be used where datagrams of a file may be stored across multiple drives and/or devices. The datagrams may be received out of order and reassembled at the receiving device.

Space vehicle field unit and ground station system

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