This article called "Next-generation rad-hard space microprocessor to be defined by Air Force and NASA" by John Keller is about how NASA and the Air Force is trying to build a next-generation rad-hard microprocessor for space, but they need a 2020 to 2030 space computer. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) made a request on the next-generation space processor (NGSP) which will take 3 months of analysis. The NASA and the Air Force are trying to make a space-qualifiable with a rad-hard that is made for manned and unmanned. First they will have to make a model of the space-qualifiable with the rad-hard and they will have to predict how will the power and the realistic performance and it will be their estimate of how the actual model will work.
The model will have pinpoint on it's landing that will include the direction it landed like if it is on a mission on Mars or on the Moon the NASA will know were is it located on. The model will have mirror control that have large space telescopes. It will have multi-megapixel level hyperspectral images (best quality pictures that are how humans see) to send back to the base (control). Their is a program that is worth $20 million and it is for some advance space computers that are meant for advance space missions for 2030.
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http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2013/03/NextGen-space-microprocessor.html
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