PROGRAMMABLE TECHNOLOGIES WEB SITE

A scientific study of the problems of digital engineering for space flight systems,
with a view to their practical solution.

NSSC-1: NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer

Title and Reference	Abstract
DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF NASA's FIRST STANDARD SPACECRAFT COMPUTER Communications of the ACM September 1984 Volume 27 Number 9 pp. 902-913 p902-trevathan.pdf	Abstract To provide the autonomy needed by low, earth-orbiting satellites, NASA's first standard on-board processor requires changing only interfacing hardware from mission to mission. This copy is by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery.  The ACM permits copies of this article to be made without fee provided that they are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage.

Home
Last Revised: February 03, 2010
Digital Engineering Institute
Web Grunt: Richard Katz