September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... each attempting to bring a new layer of innovation by different methods such as low-cost, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), agile-mass manufacturing, and data fusion combined with machine learning. With a possible success rate of five...
10 November 2025
Alpha Data launches Versal RF COTS
...leader in high-performance FPGA-based Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solutions. These are the first deployable solutions based on ...launch, Alpha Data becomes the first to deliver deployable COTS solutions built around the AMD Versal RF adaptive SoCs...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
...body responds to living in space - technology that led to the creation of a baby monitoring system to protect against cot deaths. Similarly, microbiological sensors for space applications can be used to detect contamination for better water treatment...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
... hardware and software, and the satellite parts are primarily sourced from Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) components from the commercial electronics industry and integrated using modern manufacturing techniques; a process we call ‘agile...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
... needed for the EMIT mission that were not available on the COTS product. Alpha Data’s development of EMIT’s FPIE-D board, in... Data has been providing rugged Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Modified Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (MCOTS) components ...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... players besides SpaceX that are willing to transform the commercial launch market. Orbital – a competitor and a co-participator in COTS – is offering its medium-sized Antares launch vehicle as a comparatively low-cost alternative to NASA’s old “work...
