Despite the current budget woes of defense departments, the demand continues for delivering more performance and improved functionality from rugged computers and communications subsystems to fulfill mission requirements.

This white paper discusses the need for, and challenge of, compact space COTS systems for modern space applications, in particular for small launcher applications.

NASA needed to develop a space launch system and a manned capsule to replace its previous vehicles and to meet future plans for deep space exploration, and land people on Mars. Read about the solution Curtiss-Wright developed here.

The paper presents an open standards-based intra-vehicle network design approach applicable to multiple HBCT platforms using a common set of vehicle agnostic components, leveraging OpenVPX slot profiles and VICTORY Standards.

The use of COTS equipment for space applications is increasing in popularity, the risks posed by the space radiation environment need to be understood and mitigated. Download this white paper to learn more.

A developer of a small launcher sought a data acquisition solution that could endure harsh conditions, capture and transmit data during flight while also keeping costs to a minimum.

This white paper looks in more detail at the environmental and operational issues for space launch vehicles and suggests solutions based on existing ruggedized COTS data acquisition systems (DAS),

This white paper discusses how a novel approach to radiation mitigation allows the use of COTS electronics equipment in a radiation environment, thereby lowering the cost involved in the design, certification, manufacture, and deployment of such a system.

Curtiss-Wright was selected to provide its COTS data acquisition, networking and recording systems to the European Space Agency for the IXV which are qualified to meet requirements for space equipment such as radiation tolerance and high reliability.

The ACLS monitoring system required a number of distributed Data Acquisition Units (DAU) for both the OGA and CCA.