A spacecraft computing system, including: a first processor configured to process data from a payload and a first spacecraft system; a second processor configured to process data from a second spacecraft system; an interface connected to the second processor configured to interface with a third spacecraft system, wherein the second processor is configured to monitor the first processor and to initiate the recovery of the first processor when the first processor experiences a fault, wherein the first processor's processing capacity is greater the second processor's processing capacity, and wherein the second processor is more reliable than the first processor.
Small spacecraft processing and bus architecture
2024-12-31
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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