Future CubeSat platforms for IOD/IOV missions will require improved capabilities at an equal or reduced price as currently available platforms. Two important drivers for such a platform are computational power and flexibility to adapt to different missions. OroraTech has developed a computational powerful processing unit, in form of a GPU and a new modular and flexible bus architecture, called SmartPanels, for this purpose. Equipped with this technology, OroraTech will enter the IOD/IOV market.

Many types of science missions focus on Solar System targets with harsh thermal environments, such as Mars, the Moon, asteroids, comets, and other bodies at the fringes of the Solar System. Traditional spacecraft avionics rely on the storage of electrical energy in electrochemical systems (typically secondary batteries) for covering peak energy demands and periods where no electrical energy is generated (Lunar/Martian/cometary night, etc.).

At present there are few European compact connector solutions that offer performances required for high speed operation of SpaceWire as well as meeting the stringent environmental requirements in space applications. The ECSS E-ST-50-12C defines the connectors and cables to be used on a SpaceWire Cable Assembly, respectively as per ESCC 3401/071 and ESCC 3902/003. Recent developments done under the frame of an ESA TRP activity lead to the definition of new cable variants allowing noticeable mass saving, compared to the current variant of the ESCC 3902/003.

The main tasks will be:-design-Foundry-Test of performances with existing CMOS detectors-Radiation tests

The main goal of this Ariadna study was to determine the radiation hardness of potential future space processors. The AR0 test-chip was used to study the impact of SEUs and SETs on different versions of a hardened processor on UTBB-FDSOI 28nm technology, including DICE flip-flops, and three different hardening level of combinational logic.