SmallSat Payload Development

Developing solutions to service Earth from Space

About

What we do

We specialize in developing embedded solutions for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) applications.Current solutions are tailored for big budget companies with satellite constellations. This needs to change.We are creating tools for Small & Innovative Space Companies needing flexibility - and at a fair price.

Products

TychoBoB Processing Platform

TychoBoB - Product Sheet

An affordable entry into Edge Computing in Space

TEAM

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We are available for consulting services. Send us an email at [email protected]

Tycho Space Technologies AS // 2024


01.11. 2024 - ESA BIC + TYCHO = TRUE

Happy to announce that we have been accepted into ESA BIC Norway.ESA BIC Norway is a leading business incubator offering support and resources for startups leveraging space technology and data for commercial applications.
This is an important step into the commercialization and scaling of Tycho.


01.08.2024 - Ongoing Projects

We are currently working on projects supported by RFF Trøndelag and the Research Council's Qualification Project, focusing on the development of our Small-sat Processing Platform.


01.05.2024 - Satellite Autonomy

The operation of a satellite involves planning what the satellite will do and monitoring its health. This comes with considerable cost, both in human resources and in the use of ground stations to communicate with the satellite. Planning what the satellite will do and where to acquire data is called scheduling. This is done on ground to make instructions for the satellite, letting it know exactly what you want it to do.By having the satellite take a bigger part in the decision-making and increasing its autonomy, one can drastically reduce the operating costs. It can also be used to enhance and optimize the data acquisition from the payload. By making the satellite process more data onboard to gain knowledge about its own data in orbit, the satellite can perform real-time decision making to optimize its own operation. This then begs the questions; how can you integrate the satellite’s own decision making as part of the scheduling problem when it is based on knowledge you do not have yet? And how can you implement it without losing control of the spacecraft?Onboard processing can also be used for other purposes, such as data reduction, and is commonly already part of many satellite missions. It allows great reduction in data volume without losing any of the information in the data, thus making it cheaper and faster to downlink. Could onboard decision making be used to analyze if the satellite acquired the intended data? If so, maybe we could delete the data onboard instead of using costly resources to downlink the unusable data if it did not acquire the intended data? But how can you ensure a safe way of allowing the satellite to delete data from itself? And how can you develop a system that quickly lets you test out all these innovative operation procedures in a cheap and easy way?These are the problems and questions we at Tycho Space Technologies work on every single day. We strive to enable onboard processing whilst also thinking about reliability and security. We want to enable increased autonomy whilst also making it safe for all our customers.Are you interested in hearing more about our journey and progress?
Contact us at [email protected]


20.03.2024 - A new home

We have moved offices!
We're now staying at FAKTRY in Trondheim!
FAKTRY is a co-working space forhardware entrepreneurs and innovators!
A perfect fit for us at Tycho Space Technologies🚀
🎥Click the image down below to get a digital tour!!🎥


01.01.2022 - The beginning

Tycho Space Technologies AS is formed!


Contact

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We are available for consulting services. Send us an email at [email protected]

Products


TychoBoB Processing Platform

The TychoBoB is a processing platform based on the AMD Xilinx Kria K26 System On Module (SOM). The board aims to provide redundancy during LEO missions.
Flexible & Efficient


Technical Specification

Processing

  • AMD Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ SOM (Kria K26)

  • Quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A53 MPCore™

  • Dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F MPCore

  • Mali™-400 MP2

Programmable Logic

  • 256K Logic Cells

  • 1248 DSP Slices

  • 26.6 Mb On-Chip SRAM

Memory

  • 4 GB 64-bit DDR4 (non-ECC)

  • 16 GB eMMC

Interfaces

  • 2x 1Gbps Ethernet

  • 2x RS422 / UART

  • 2x CAN

  • LVDS

  • 2x USB 3.0

  • 2x Micro SD

  • 1x SPI

  • 1x I2C

  • 1x 10Gbps SFP

  • 1x PCIe M.2 SSD

  • GPIOs

Software Echosystem

  • Custom embedded 64-bit Linux based on Yocto

  • Services for telemetry, file transfer, ground to service communication (CLI), and more ...

  • Easy integration of customer software and accelerated designs into software echosystem

Specifications

  • Radiation hardened

  • Software echosystem proven in orbit (HYPSO-1 and HYPSO-2)

  • Compatible with Nano Avionics satellite busses

Redundancy

  • 2x SD cards with selection control

  • Fallback golden boot images

Form Factor

  • 146mm x 196mm x TBD

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