Space Micro has been selected by the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, located at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., for support in the Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian Evaluating Local Space (ANGELS) satellite program. The award is for the ANGELS Phase 3 Option effort from preliminary design review through critical design review, August 2006 through August 2007. Following completion of the CDR, the Air Force will pursue a follow-on contract for production of a prototype flight unit.

The Proton200k computer is said to be the fastest, low-power radiation-hardened computer available. Based upon a 6700-class digital signal processor from Texas Instruments, it is capable of 900 MFLOPS (million floating-point operations per second) performance at a Single Event Upset (SEU) rate of 1E-4 unrecoverable errors/day using only 5 W to 7 W of power. The Proton200k has a total dose tolerance of greater than 100 krad (Si). Protection from SEUs is achieved using Space Micro's Time-Triple Modular Redundancy (TTMR) approach, while Single Event Functional Interrupts (SEFIs) are mitigated using a H-Core (Hardened Core) technology.

Space Micro is part of the team led by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC), which also includes Space Dynamics Laboratory, a division of the Utah State University Research Foundation of Logan, Utah; the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory of Cambridge, Mass.; and Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions, Valley Forge, Pa.

Founded in 2002 as a satellite technology research and development company, Space Micro Inc. is a pioneer in providing radiation hardened by design solutions for advanced electronic systems and microelectronics. The company is a privately held with facilities in San Diego, Calif

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