How SpaceVPX is Influencing the Design of Next Generation Spacecraft Avionics

Over the last decade, a government-industry effort to advance the use of modern computer processors and networks in spacecraft avionics systems has quietly been making its own gains in industry adoption and a re-thinking of the way next generation spacecraft electronic systems could be designed in a less costly and more interoperable way.

Spacecraft avionics systems are all of the electronic instruments, components, computers and subsystems that control primary spaceflight flight and data communications functionality.