Software Defined Radio is rapidly growing in popularity and, consequentially, new application domains regularly emerge for SDR in the commercial and government marketplace. Of particular interest to StarVision Technologies is the integration of the foundational Space-SDR technologies into its line of small form factor HDTV cameras. Other areas of immediate interest and benefit to the Space-SDR team include wireless sensors, low or battery powered devices, and patient monitoring systems. Reconfigurable software defined radios have a wide applicability to NASA systems. This is especially apparent with the development of high-capacity FPGA devices that can tolerate the radiation environments of space. Specific applications of interest include: - embedded wireless communication systems for low data rate (e.g., sensor measurements) as well as high bandwidth systems (e.g., EVA suit cameras). - dedicated space-to-space communication links, especially in support of Lunar and planetary missions
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