NASA has selected SiFive to provide the main central processing unit for the next-generation High-Performance Spaceflight Computing processor. The company will supply five RISC-V cores, including the Intelligence X280 RISC-V vector core, to enable computational capability superior to existing space computers. Boosting computing performance will open new opportunities for autonomous rovers, vision processing, spaceflight, guidance […]

Ball Aerospace & Technology will supply the laser prestabilization system for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna laser assembly under an $11.9 million contract from NASA. The product will be among the space agency’s contributions to the LISA mission, which aims to detect and study gravitational waves emanating from spacetime distortions to discover other parts of […]