Space data acquisition and onboard data handling
Increasing commercial pressures are putting focus on keeping costs to a minimum for space missions. This has led to a widespread use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) development and operational flight instrumentation for space launchers and vehicles.
Curtiss-Wright's space qualified COTS use highly ruggedized modular data acquisition and telemetry systems that balance low cost with high reliability and leverage a flight test heritage of 20+ years. Our latest data acquisition system, the Axon, combines revolutionary performance in a rugged, compact form.
Our launch vehicle data acquisition on board data handling has been proven successful on many missions, including Rocket Lab, SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon, ESA IXV and ULA Delta V, and have been selected for future use on many more.
Read about Lowering the Cost of Spacecraft Avionics with Radiation Tolerant COTS Electronics here.