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January 09, 2013

LEON: the space chip that Europe built
Paris (ESA) Jan 09, 2013
Just like home computers, the sophisticated capabilities of today's space missions are made possible by the power of their processor chips. ESA's coming Alphasat telecom satellite, the Proba-V microsatellite, the Earth-monitoring Sentinel family and the BepiColombo mission to Mercury are among the first missions to use an advanced 32-bit microprocessor - engineered and built in Europe. All of them incorporate the new LEON2-FT chip, commercially known as the AT697. Engineered to operate within spac ... read more

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Space Trash May Make Radiation Shields

LEON: the space chip that Europe built

That's not what I meant: A new phase in reading photons

BAE pulls out of Australian comms tender

DARPA selects SwRI's K-band space crosslink radio for flight development as part of System F6 Program

DoD Guidance on Spectrum Use for Hosted Payloads Needs New Approach

Arianespace to launch VNREDSat-1A built by Astrium for Vietnam

Arianespace says 2012 sales leapt by 30%

CSF Applauds Passage Of Risk-Sharing Regime Extension For Launch Industry

New location system could compete with GPS

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TVs get bigger, bolder, smarter at CES show

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That's not what I meant: A new phase in reading photons

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