Iridium NEXT– Thales Alenia

Mission: To provide voice and data capabilities to phones and other communication devices around the world via a satellite constellation of 75.

SEAKR Product on Board: On Board Processor

SEAKR’ s Product Functions: SEAKR’ s OBP provides a flexible on orbit reprogrammable communication processor responsible for RF channelization, regeneration, and packet switching.

Units Delivered: 81

Fun Fact: The Iridium constellation was named such because originally it was believed that 77 satellites would be required to accomplish the desired coverage. 77 is the atomic number of the element Iridium.

Bonus Fact: Iridium is one of the largest satellite constellations deployed.

ORION – NASA

Mission: Orion is a next generation reusable manned space exploration vehicle. It is designed to sustain crew members during space travel to the moon and beyond.

SEAKR Product on Board: Vision Processing Unit (VPU)

SEAKR’s Product Functions: The VPU is the on-board video processor, backup flight computer, and solid state memory system, all in a single box.

Units Delivered: 1

Fun Fact: The SEAKR VPU processed all orbit and reentry video that was broadcast live during Orion’s Exploration Flight Test Mission.

Juno – NASA

Mission: To study Jupiter’s composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere.

SEAKR Product on Board: Computer Power Supply & Non-Volatile Memory System

SEAKR’s Product Functions: SEAKR power supply converts the 12V bus voltage to smaller rail voltages for SEAKR’s memory system and other spacecraft electronics.

Units Delivered: 1

Fun Fact: Jupiter has such a brutal radiation environment that the spacecraft electronics were placed in a special “vault.” Made out of titanium, the vault weighs over 400lbs and will protect Juno from the equivalent of one hundred million dental x-rays.

James Webb Space Telescope – NASA

Mission: All the digital data James Webb gathers about our universe, as it was 13.5 billion years ago, is stored on the onboard solid state recorder until it is delivered to the world’s scientists.

SEAKR Product on Board: Solid State Data Recorder (SSDR)

SEAKR Product Functions: Provides 3 data partitions for recording science, engineering, and mission telemetry data across 65 GB of data storage (at beginning of Life). Science data from the SSDR is then downlinked in two 4-hr contacts per day. 

Units delivered: 2 x Engineering Model units, 1 x Flight unit

Fun Fact: Known initially as the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), the project was later renamed the James Webb Space Telescope in honor of NASA’s second administrator who led the agency during the Apollo program.