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Powering-On Your Space Electronics for the First Time

Powering-On Your Space Electronics for the First Time

Powering-on your Space Electronics for the first time is always daunting, but very exciting! For initial board ‘bring-up’, there are always so many questions: is your design functional? Has the PCB been fabricated reliably? Has the hardware been assembled correctly, e.g. have parts been placed in the correct orientation and/or have BGAs/CGAs been checked to ensure there are no solder bridges? Once in orbit, the obvious concern is whether your avionics survived the shock and vibration of launch? Before powering-on your Space Electronics for the first time, there is a choregraphed sequence of checks you need to carry-out before supplying a voltage. What happens if there is a short-circuit after applying power?

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A Comparison of Space-Grade Memory Technologies

A Comparison of Space-Grade Memory Technologies

Satellite and spacecraft sub-systems are increasingly using more and more on-board storage, and the choice of memory has a major impact on overall capacity, physical size, power-consumption, speed, reliability and mission lifetime. One technology is fabricated with known erroneous bits, with limits on the total number of permitted write operations, which could constrain or jeopardise your mission’s on-board storage needs! SDRAM, MRAM, NAND flash, NOR Flash, SONOS, SRAM, PROM, DRAM, EEPROM, volatile, non-volatile and SPI memory, which one is right for you?

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Fast, High-Capacity, Endurant MRAM for Space Applications

Fast, High-Capacity, Endurant MRAM for Space Applications

MRAM offers the space industry the speed of SRAM, a density approaching DRAM, the non-volatility of flash memory, unlimited read/write endurance and low power consumption. These on-board storage benefits will enable new use cases for satellite applications.

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Sid Batra Jul 28, 2026
Hi, we are a distributor of space ready SSD, memory, GNSS antennas. We'd like to introduce them to Spacechips.
If a UK contact is preferred, I can introduce to Nick Bell on our UK team.

Thanks

Sid
Wolfram Oct 06, 2025
Heard your presentation at ESA today, looking for more insights.
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Wolfram
Kenneth Wilson Jul 14, 2022
Thank you for writing and sharing the article on right first time PCB design for space application, it's very informative

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