NLR offers expertise in on-board processing solutions for a range of space missions. We can provide processing capabilities for payloads on large missions, as well as flexible and reliable processing implemented in software or hardware (FPGA) or a combination of both. Our solutions also cater to smaller satellites, such as CubeSats, with low-power, low-volume, and modular designs that can serve a range of payloads. Additionally, we support small satellite on-board processing with a mix of high reliability and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components, balancing product assurance and time to market. We also specialise in niche processing applications, including space-qualified FFT processing, DSP processing, and other specific use cases.
NLR can support you with:
- Knowlegde and experience in space qualified data processing.
- Combination of high speed FFT processing (complex, floating point data samples).
- LEON3 (GR712) processor board.
- Knowledge and experience in CubeSat data processing.
- CubeSat ARM9 processor board with 2 SD-card slots, successfully flown on CubeSat Triton-1.
- Data processor (incl storage) for a Biofilter experiment, successfully flown in 2005.
- Knowledge and experience of ISS applications.
- Mass Memory boards installed on ISS, operating for more than 15 years.
- Design and support to the implementation of the Thermal Control electronics for AMS2.
- Knowledge and experience of data processing on small satellites.
- Processing of data on-board Sloshsat FLEVO, successfully launched on ARIANE-5 and operated in February 2005.
- Implementation of dedicated algorithms.
- Calculation of the so-called Doppler Delay Maps, based on FFT processing, for usage on GNSS-R payloads or GNSS-R satellites.
- Feasibility studies to data chain approach with one sensor and one end application.
- Data processing for a small SAR instrument on a 150 kg platform.
- Direction Finding algorithms, based on MUSIC and ESPRIT, with signals in the 1-6 GHz and in the 8-10 GHz range.
