About
What we do
We specialize in developing embedded solutions for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) applications, expediting the journey from conception to implementation. Leveraging consumer electronics enables us to reduce costs, all while prioritizing flexibility and reliability.Our aim is to become a reliable partner in the NewSpace industry, and contribute to making space more accessible and affordable.
Products
Embedded solutions
TychoBoB Processing Platform
TEAM
Employees
Simen Berg
CTO
Torbjørn Bratvold
CEO
Håkon Kindem
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Martin Grande
CFO
Martin Mostad
Software Engineer
Simen Netteland
Embedded and FPGA
Engineer
Peter Knutsen
PCB Design
Blog
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Tycho Space Technologies AS // 2024
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?
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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!
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