Renesas’ Radiation Hardened ICs Take Flight on <span style='color:red'>NASA</span>’s Artemis II Crewed Lunar Mission
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Renesas’ Radiation Hardened ICs Take Flight on NASA’s Artemis II Crewed Lunar Mission

　　TOKYO, Japan ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced its radiation‑hardened (rad-hard) ICs are being used in NASA’s Artemis II mission, which successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1. The first crewed mission around the moon in decades, Artemis II represents a major milestone in NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon and establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface.　　Four astronauts are now en route to orbit the moon aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, taking humans farther from Earth than they have traveled in over fifty years. During the flight, the crew will test spacecraft systems and crew performance in this deep‑space environment before returning safely home. The mission will validate key spacecraft capabilities and position Orion for future crewed journeys and lunar landings.　　Within the Artemis II core systems, including the Orion capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, Renesas rad-hard ICs are used across multiple subsystems. These Intersil-branded devices are embedded in the space vehicle’s avionics and safety launch system, helping to regulate and distribute power, maintain signal integrity and support onboard computing. These specialized ICs are built to operate reliably when exposed to the elevated levels of radiation and extreme temperatures that are typical of human space missions.　　“Human space flight missions leave no margin for failure, and we’re proud to be one of the select few semiconductor companies entrusted to provide space-qualified technology for this historic crewed Artemis mission,” said Chris Stephens, Vice President of the HiRel Business Division at Renesas. “Our rad-hard devices help keep spacecraft systems connected, protected and precisely controlled, as crews venture into deep space. We look forward to supporting future landmark missions and ushering in the next era of solar system exploration with our space‑grade semiconductor solutions.”　　The Renesas Intersil brand has a long history in the space industry spanning more than six decades, beginning with the founding of Radiation Inc. in 1950. Since then, virtually every satellite, shuttle launch and deep-space exploration mission has included Intersil-branded products. Renesas leverages this experience to deliver efficient, thermally-optimized and highly-reliable SMD, MIL-STD-883 and MIL-PRF 38535 Class-V/Q Intersil-branded products for the defense, high-reliability (Hi-Rel), and rad-hard space markets. Renesas Intersil-brand rad-hard ICs support subsystems for mission critical applications in data communications transfer, power supplies and power conditioning, general protection circuitry, and telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C).　　For more information on Renesas’ Intersil-brand space and hi-reliability solutions, visit: www.renesas.com/space.　　About Renesas Electronics Corporation　　Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. A leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at renesas.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, X, YouTube, and Instagram.　　(Remarks) All names of products or services mentioned in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.　　The content in the press release, including, but not limited to, product prices and specifications, is based on the information as of the date indicated on the document, but may be subject to change without prior notice.
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<span style='color:red'>NASA</span> Wants Tricorder for Mars
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NASA Wants Tricorder for Mars

　　NASA wants to take to Mars a geological tricorder. A researcher preparing for the mission asked attendees at last week’s Sensors Expo here if they could build one.　　Right now the space agency has four portable scientific instruments weighing about 21 pounds. They do a reasonable job, but there’s room for improvement, and they are a bit much to carry.　　Astronauts will be laden with bulky suits, oxygen tanks and backpacks. They have limited time to accomplish a broad range of missions walking over a rocky terrain with no hospitals within a million miles if they fall.　　“We’d like to have multiple instruments in one. Can we build this thing?" asked Alexander Sehlke, a research fellow in the BASALT project at NASA Ames, speaking in a keynote here.　　As part of its work, the team has identified several requirements for their Martian power tools. For example, besides being light and small, they should capture high-quality data. That’s not easy given that they need to interact with jagged rocks, identifying elements sometimes in 5mm crannies where contacts are poor and signal reflections are abundant.　　Instruments should analyze the data in a short time, in part to speed communications. One tool embeds a library of the spectral profiles of minerals to speed identification. Such tricks are helpful given latency back to Earth where online data is stored varies from 4.5 to 20 minutes.　　Today, some of the team’s instruments stream data over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to local servers that can send it back to earth. But others require data be manually read out, sometimes by taking pictures of displays or at best a multi-step process of rebooting the instrument and synching it to a server. Highly illogical!　　Here’s one component you won’t find inside your Black & Decker drill: The instruments generally include small pumps to evacuate internal gases to improve the accuracy of readings.　　The good news is a laser and an x-ray system the team currently uses have many overlapping parts and functions. Unfortunately, an infrared instrument is quite different.
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