Most mid- to high-power supplies use fans to help dissipate the internal heat that is generated as a result of imperfect AC to DC conversion efficiencies. Since fans are electromechanical devices, they reduce the system’s MTBF and add to the required maintenance expenses.

A new breed of conduction-cooled power supplies has been developed that do not depend on fans for cooling. Instead, the required cooling is accomplished by conducting the internal heat loads to an external metal structure or enclosure, which act as a large heat sink surface.

TDK-Lambda’s new CPFE1000F series, are conduction-cooled, 1,000 watt AC-DC power supplies.   All heat is conducted to the supply’s aluminum plate, which is designed to easily mount to a metal enclosure or cold plate for cooling.

The CASPEX Space Camera Head family provides high resolution and high performance camera heads for space applications. Integrated using 3D PLUS packaging technology, each camera head embeds a high performance image sensor associated user-reconfigurable FPGA-based electronic architecture, allowing configurable embedded image processing and formatting for a versatile use.

Offering a highpower on-board processor (NXP Layerscape® LS1046A SoC with four 64-bit ARM® Cortex®-A72 cores, 44,000 CoreMarks, 1.8 GHz) and a high-performance configurable FPGA that extends the on-board processing power critical for space environments.

The 3U OpenVPX SP1 is a space-rated single-board computer (SBC) that is ideal for high performance,
LEO, GEO, Lunar and Deep Space missions