BAE Computers Handle Processing on NASA Glast Mission

(Farnborough, UK, July 14, 2008) -- BAE Systems computers will enable a new NASA satellite to examine gamma rays, the most intense form of radiation in the universe. Seven of the company's RAD750(tm) computers are aboard the Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) on a mission to measure and characterize the high-energy radiation emitted by black holes and emerging neutron stars.

Of the seven BAE Systems computers aboard GLAST, two control spacecraft functions such as position-keeping and data-handling, and five will manage functions on the satellite's scientific instrument. Following a 60-day checkout and calibration period, GLAST will transmit more than 100 gigabits of information daily to NASA scientists.

"This mission called for computers that can provide significant processing power," said Vic Scuderi, manager of satellite electronics at BAE Systems' Specialty Microelectronics Foundry in Manassas, Virginia. "These computers will help scientists study elusive gamma rays as they search for information about the nature of the universe and its many mysteries."

Source : BAE Systems

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