NxA
Product Overview
Advanced payload data processing, command and control for spacecraft ranging from SmallSats to Space Stations
Technical Specifications
Hardware Features
Powered by the Nvidia AGX/IGX Thor or Orin - available in Modular or Multiple Redundant or Distributed Computing deployments
Radiation hardening through system design with rad hard power components, rad hard watchdog coprocessor, resilient memories and shielding
Support for external digital and analogue sensor (ie. Temperature) readings and backwards compatible with NxN expansion module ecosystem
Software Features
In-orbit over-the-air firmware and software update capability
Advanced error detection and correction included - housekeeping data, logging, scheduling, tasking for smooth operations in-flight
Support for multi-process-service for effective compute resource allocation per program/application
4000+ TFLOPS
Modular, scalable compute
- Compatible with both AGX/IGX Thor or Orin modules
- Distributed computing capable
- Scalable multi-process-service support
- Hypervisor available
- Containerized application deployment
50+ kRad
Radiation resiliency
- Radiation hardened by system design
- Smart power arbitration
- Radiation hardened watchdog co-processor
- Resilient filesystems and custom error-detection-and-correction solution
- Modular redundant capable
25GRMS
Enclosure design
- Resilient mechanical design
- Efficient thermal dissipation pathways
- Lockable I/O plate
- Protected connector design
- Easily-attachable thermal interface solution
All our products undergo Space Qualification, involvingstringent testing under extreme conditions to ensure robustness and high performance
FAQ's
The NxA targets the smallest form factor spacecraft being Cubesats, it occupies a standard 2U size in the range of 200mm x100mm x 100mm. The 4 holes in the corners allow for mounting with the copper side expected to be used for heat dissipation. A bolt pattern for an easily-attachable thermal interface solution is included in the module design.
Yes, you can option a hybrid combination of the AGX/IGX Thor and the Orin together. We do not recommend that you swap the Orin module onto a compute element/card meant for a Thor or vice versa – there are hardware level configuration changes that must occur.
Absolutely! ECM-OS on the NxA supports RAID, resilient filesystems such as BTRFS or ZFS and checkpointing.
You can option the NxA to only have one board within it due to SWaP concerns, the other compute card/element side will be blanked off.
Yes, the NxA can be optioned with an interposer which allows it to be interfaced with NxN Expansion Modules – these include a PC104 Adapter, PCIe Full Sized Expansion Module, RT PolarFire FPGA Expansion Module, OBC Expansion Module (VectorNav VN310 IMU + Novatel OEM7 GPS), SDR Expansion Module (Epiq Sidekiq Stretch + DVB-S2X IP Core + Power Amplifier) and many more.
