One TFLOP/s GPU on an Aerocube Picosatellite

The Aerospace Corporation Engineering, 2016-17

Liaison(s): Tim Smith ’05, Alex Utter ’05, Darren Rowen, Dr. Joseph Betser
Advisor(s): Brian Bryce
Students(s): Aaron Wang (TL-F), Men Cheol Jeong (TL-S), Lauren Hu (S), Alex Echeverria (S), Teresa Despres (F), Nancy Wei (F), Nicholas Sakowski (F)

The Picosat program at The Aerospace Corporation designs, constructs, launches and operates small cube-like satellites for various mission concepts. The Aerospace Corporation clinic project is to build and demonstrate a picosatellite payload using the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 supercomputer-on-module. This payload will measure the functional ability of the Jetson TX1 in a low earth orbit radiation environment. Successful demonstration of the Jetson will raise the space readiness level of this cutting-edge technology and will enable exciting future mission capabilities.