On-board computer designed to keep your mission safe
Antelope combines an On-Board Computer (OBC) and a Data Processing Unit (DPU). It is the powerful heart of the satellite, responsible for satellite control and essential task performance such as communication handling, monitoring the satellite’s subsystems, handling the classic Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) mechanism and performing planned tasks.
Thanks to the powerful (160 GOPS) FPGA system it can also handle complicated on-board data processing tasks enabling Earth Observation (EO), telecommunication and other demanding data processing applications.
Do you want to make your mission safer?
ANTELOPE IS BUILT OUT OF 2 KEY ELEMENTS
OBC
The On-Board Computer PC-104 form factor, based on Hercules RM57 expanded with 8 or 16 MiB of MRAM and 4 or 8 GiB of NAND Flash memory
DPU
The Data Processing Unit module supports the calculations with Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC, expanded with 8 GiB of DDR4 and 8 GiB of NAND Flash
Antelope was designed to maximize spacecraft safety. Thanks to customised mechanisms which protect against effects related to space radiation it can be applied in more demanding missions. There is an option for additional security level provided by the machine learning algorithms which, on the basis of telemetric data, detect events which may be considered as threatening to the security of the mission. If such an event is detected, the computer will notify the operator in order to take corrective action. The DPU could also be paired with the different sensors and analysed their data in situ.
Antelope is part of the Smart Mission Ecosystem – hardware, software, and AI-powered algorithms designed to complete your mission.
Expert tool for annotating anomalous signals
Anomaly annotator
We create an anomaly annotator graphical tool for labelling time series data. This tool is based on the open-source TRAINSET application by Geocene Inc. However, we significantly improved it in terms of performance and added a bunch of features for working with long multi-channel time series (such as satellite telemetry). Go to website.
KEY ADVANTAGES
Mission Safety
20 kRad tolerance and SEE protections. Classic FDIR mechanisms. Optional Artificial Intelligence for preventive failure detection of all types of anomalies: point, contextual, collective
Mission Power
160 GOPS of computing power enables exciting possibilities in Earth observation, telecommunication and AI-based applications
Mission Extensibility
Compatibility with Leopard Data Processing Unit. By pairing Antelope and Leopard you can extend the onboard processing power by 3000 GOPS to enable the processing of more demanding calculations
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
| OBC | DPU | |
| PROCESSING CORES | RM57 Hercules microcontroller: Dual 300 MHz ARM Cortex-R5F with FPU in lock-step | Equipped with Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZU2EG| ZU3EG| ZU4EG| ZU5EG: Quad ARM Cortex-A53 CPU up to 1.5 GHz, Dual ARM Cortex-R5 in lock-step, FPGA for custom function implementation DPU with Kintex Ultrascale is also possible on request |
| MEMORY | 12 MiB of MRAM, ECC protected Program Flash, 1-4 GiB SLC flash-based filesystem storage with ECC, 256 kiB of FRAM | 8 GiB DDR4 with ECC, 4 or 8 GB SLC NAND Flash |
| INTERFACES | Interfaces: CAN, I2C, GPIO, LVDS, SPI, RS422/485, UART, Additional custom interfaces upon request: SpaceWire, Ethernet, LVDS/RS422 interfaces compatible with X/S-Band radios and CCSDS-compatible communication channel upon request | Interfaces: LVDS, SPI, RS422/485, GTY and GTH transceivers, Additional custom interfaces upon request: SpaceWire |
| SPECIFICATIONS | Supply Voltage: 5.5 to 14 V (VBAT) or 5V regulated, Operating Temperature: -40 to 85 °C, Supercap-powered RTC, Flash FPGA for custom function implementation | Supply Voltage: 5.5 to 14 V (VBAT) or 5V regulated, Operating Temperature: -40 to 85 °C, FPGA bitstream loaded by TT&C (reconfigurable in orbit) |
| SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEM | KP Labs’s On-board Computer Software - Oryx | 64-bit Linux or bare-metal applications |
| FORM-FACTOR | PC-104 board | 70x45mm daughter board compatible with OBC |