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Old 28-October-2007, 11:46 PM
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Gets 'Spacewired'

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will use a new advanced technology network interface called "SpaceWire" that enables the components on the telescope to work more efficiently and more reliably with each other.

SpaceWire is a standard for high-speed communication links between satellite components. Originally developed by the European Space Agency, SpaceWire has been adopted and improved by a team at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) and Command and Data Handling (ICDH) engineering team has developed a small and very low power microchip that sends and receives SpaceWire signals at speeds of over 200 mega-bits per second.
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As a result of this JWST technology development, other missions are considering SpaceWire include the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R).
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The benefit to other missions from using SpaceWire is a lower cost for development, a reduction of development time, better reliability, and an increase in the amount of scientific work that can be achieved within a limited budget.
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ESA SpaceWire

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SpaceWire is a standard for high-speed links and networks for use onboard spacecraft, easing the interconnection of:
  • sensors
  • mass-memories
  • processing units, and
  • downlink telemetry sub-systems

SpaceWire equipment is connected together using SpaceWire links which are:
  • serial,
  • high-speed (2 Mbits/sec to 200 Mbits/sec),
  • bi-directional,
  • full-duplex
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  • Purpose
  • Key Features
  • Introduction to SpaceWire
  • The Standard
  • Missions
  • Online Journal
  • Working Group
  • Devices and Equipment
  • FAQ
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You mean fiber optics don't work in space?

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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