STAR-Dundee looks to grow team to support new spacecraft standard

STAR-Dundee looks to grow team to support new spacecraft standard

For the past decade, aerospace engineering company STARDundee has been leading the development of the next generation of spacecraft onboard networking technology: SpaceFibre. To support this rapid adoption of SpaceFibre, STAR-Dundee are looking to grow its team in Dundee.

SpaceFibre is a high-performance, high-reliability, high-availability network technology for use onboard spacecraft. It provides data signalling rates of 6.25 Gbit/s in current flight technology, while its unique multi-laning features allow up to 16 lanes to be combined into a single link, giving correspondingly higher data rates. SpaceFibre offers much more than high data rates, however and is capable of detecting, isolating and recovering from faults in the link where they occur, preventing faults from propagating around the spacecraft network.

STAR-Dundee’s efforts in developing SpaceFibre were recently rewarded with the publication

of the SpaceFibre standard by the European Space Agency’s standardisation body. STAR-Dundee’s CTO, Steve Parkes, wrote the SpaceFibre standard with input from international spacecraft engineers, while STAR-Dundee developed the first SpaceFibre interfaces and routing switches, and was the first to demonstrate these in a radiation tolerant flight chip. SpaceFibre has been, and is being, designed into flight chips, on-board equipment and space missions across the world including Europe, USA, Russia and Japan.

To support this rapid adoption of SpaceFibre, STAR-Dundee is looking to recruit for its Dundee office and would like to hear from experienced Electronic Engineers, PCB Designers and Software Engineers who would enjoy working for an employee owned space company.