- Computers
Space Micro Inc.'s single-board computer launched in space aboard satellite
SAN DIEGO, 29 Dec. 2006. Space Micro Inc.'s Proton100k space computer was launched successfully aboard the TacSat-2 satellite from Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops, Va. The Proton100k radiation-hardened single-board computer (RH SBC) is the instrument computer of the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) RoadRunner On-board Processing Experiment (ROPE), performing data management and processing of focal plane array data.