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Article: United States: Real time embedded systems computer to be provided to Ares I rocket by Aitech.
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- September 7, 2009
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Aitech Defense Systems Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif., will provide real time embedded systems processing components for the Ares I launch vehicle's instrument unit avionics computer and command telemetry computer systems under terms of a contract from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Aitech will provide its S950 single board computer and S750 PCI mezzanine card (PMC) to Ball Aerospace for a triple-redundant embedded computing configuration to provide flight control redundancy in the instrument avionics flight computer.
The S950 embedded computer offers a 1 GHz processing engine. The soon-to-be-released Aitech S750 four-port ...