Kwan details Some of the biggest space science achievements in 2015. NASA's Cassini spacecraft continues to return images and science data from Saturn and its moons. Its brains are a set of seven Generic VHSIC Spaceborne Computer (GVSC) flight computers born from the Pentagon's Very High Speed Integrated Circuit, or VHSIC, program of the 1980s. GVSC is a radiation-hardened 16-bit processor for the US Defense Department's MIL-STD-1750A instruction set.


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    Title :

    Old processors guide new space explorations


    Contributors:
    Rick Kwan (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2015



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    Local classification TIB:    770/7040
    BKL:    55.88 Luftverkehr, Raumfahrt / 55.88