VISION

In 2018, JAXA space engineer and designers of embedded CPU board assembled tags and started as a "JAXA startup".

We will develop inexpensive high performance computer for space, for the realization of such world. For the era when anyone can go to the moon...

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PRODUCT

Even using expensive radiation hardened parts don't solve all of your mission problems nor prevents any crashes of your space product, either.

Our products realize both reliability and cost reduction by using technologies accumulated through the international space station.

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NEWS

Mar. 7, 2022　 Published in "New Switch"

Aug. 18, 2020　Granted for "SERVIS"

Jan. 14, 2020　 Selected as "J-TECH STARTUP 2019"

Oct. 31, 2019　 Published in Nikkei newspaper

Sep. 25, 2018　 Presented at 26th NEDO Pitch event

June 1, 2018　 Established Space Cubics, LLC.

May 29, 2018　 Received the "JAXA Startup" certificate

Detail

VISION

Make it Cheaper

Space-based products have more performance and safety and reliability verification requirements than ground-based products, and their project costs are very high.

Space Cubics is a "JAXA Startup" company to produce a high-reliability computer for satellites or other space products, incorporating techniques accumulated through operations at International Space Station (ISS) by Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Our products are easy to use, ready to use for start-ups and serious space industries. We will significantly reduce the project cost of developing space product.

Make it Easier

Even if you have excellent technology, developing of space product is not easy for companies and organizations without space development experience. Even if companies are interested in space development, there are many cases that they don't know what they should have started with. As a result, they often hesitate to involve in space field at the planning phase. Space Cubics provides total support for space development so that companies interested in space can easily enter space field.

Anyone in Space

Space Cubics makes it easy to enter space development by providing space computer with low-cost and total support, and contributes to increase the private space industry. The goal of Space Cubics is to create a new business by rapidly expanding the need for space as many companies, organizations and even individuals enter space development.

And one day, the hotel will be built on the moon, aiming to realize the era when anyone can go to space.

SERVICE

Space Grade Computer

Provide In-house designed on-Board Computers.
Leverage radiation-hard technology accumulated through ISS program at JAXA.

Custom Development

Space Grade Computer

Design and develop software, FPGA logic, and PCBs for your specific space project.
Are specialized in Zephyr RTOS, Embedded Linux, cFS, CSP, CCSDS, ISS LEHX, TMR logic, redundant hardware design, and more.

Consulting

Space Grade Computer

Consulting

Provide consulting service for your space program.
Support planning, designing, developments, and paperwork by leveraging our extensive development experience at JAXA.

Cost-saving vs Reliability

Our products reduce your total budget for developing a space product. It is often the case that a project uses cheap single board computers because of the limited budget. But the decision may affect whether your mission succeed or not. Or even using radiation hardened parts don't solve all of your mission problems nor prevents any crashes of your space product, either. Don't you want to increase reliability with low cost?

Fault tolerance

In general, almost all of high-reliability products do not have failure tolerant function. Even if a space-graded high-reliability product is used, it's often the case that the computer is failed by single events in space. If the system will be freezed, you can not fix it from the Earth. On the other hand, our product is built on the idea of recovery from failures and has many failure tolerant functions. For instance, it will handle TMR (Triple modular redundancy) and hot/cold standby replication. The failure tolerant functions detect malfunction caused by radiation effects or software bugs in real-time, then it is recovered to normal state.

Easy of use

Best thing about our product is that all you have to do is to write your mission software and decide your command set, then just forget about everything else. In addition to the failure tolerant function, our products have other useful functions, such as ISS compatible network protocol, TTEthernet and popular middle-ware ROS or cFS. Furthermore, we can custom-design software/CPU board/FPGA as you would like to change.Space Cubics supports the success of your mission.

SPECIFICATION

SC-OBC Module A1

Main FPGA Device

Xilinx Artix-7

Partial Reconfiguration/Triple Modular Redundancy

Clock Source Oscillators

24 MHz x 2

Redundancy

Main CPU

ARM Cortex M3 (Soft Core)

Supported Operating System

Zephyr RTOS

Link to Zephyr web

Failure Detection/System Recovery

8 Bit PIC MCU

On Chip SRAM

64 kByte FPGA Block RAM

ECC and Memory Scrubbing

On Board SRAM

4 MByte

NOR Flash Memory for Configuration Data

32 MByte x 2

Redundancy

NOR Flash Memory for Program Data

32 MByte x 2

Redundancy

FeRAM

512 kByte x 2

Redundancy

Dedicated Communication Channels

CAN, I2C, UART

FPGA User I/O Pins

38 pin

PIC User I/O Pins

3 pin

On Board Temperature Sensors

Watchdog Timer

1 (IP Core)

Interface Connector

80 pin/0.5mm pitch

Input Voltage

DC 5.0V ± 10%

Input Power Line Redundancy with Current & Voltage Monitor

Power Consumption

2.0 W (Max)

Operating Temperature

-40 〜 +80 ℃ (TBD)

Dimensions

70 x 70 x 9.6 mm

Mass

130 g

Special Price Terms

SC-OBC Module A1 (hereinafter referred to as "the product") is planned for space demonstration using our satellite. The current price is a limited-time special offer until the space demonstration.

Special Price Terms:

Price are subject to change without prior notice. For the latest information, please refer to this website.
Price may not include customs duties, consumption tax, other value-added taxes, shipping costs, etc.
No sufficient technical document in English is available yet. (Documents in Japanese are available here.)
You agree to disclose your purchase of the product on our company's website, social media, or other platforms.
You agree to disclose the use of the product in equipment launched into space or used in other industrial fields on our company's website, social media, or other platforms.
You agree to provide operational data from the use of the product in space (please note that the data will not be disclosed). We are interested in receiving data related to the functionality and performance of the product for feedback on future product specifications. If you have any questions regarding the scope or method of data provision, please feel free to contact us.
There may be instances where we request your cooperation in participating in surveys about user-friendliness, specifications, and other feedback regarding the product.

Mar. 7, 2022

Published our space computer and vision as a feature column of deep technology in "New Switch" of the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.

https://newswitch.jp/p/31131

Aug. 18, 2020

Granted for "SERVIS", Space Environment Reliability Verification Integrated System, by METI with SPACE ONE Co., Ltd. We will validate our space computer and bus system in space to establish a low-cost CubeSat platform that anyone can use.

https://sii.or.jp/space02/decision.html

Jan. 14, 2020

Selected as "J-TECH STARTUP 2019" as one of typical technology start-up company of Japan.

Our representative will attend the award ceremony on Feb. 26th, 2020.

https://www.tepweb.jp/event/j-techstartup2019/

Oct. 31, 2019

Published our space computer in Nikkei newspaper with a caption saying "A Space Entrepreneur"

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO51692990R01C19A1X11000/

Sep. 25, 2018

Presented at 26th NEDO Pitch event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_zESlPNQ4

June 1, 2018

Established Space Cubics, LLC. It is the first JAXA startup company co-founded by members of JAXA staff and private companies.

May 29, 2018

Received the "JAXA Startup" certificate from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

http://aerospacebiz.jaxa.jp/en/venture/

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Yasushi Shoji

Fumito Morishima

Daisuke Sasaki

CEO

Software Engineer

He graduated from Salem State Univ., MA, USA in 2000. Since 2002 he has been engaged in developing embedded CPU boards. Making full use of his extensive knowledge and experience, he is in charge of development of comprehensive software for the space drone in 2016.

Daisuke Sasaki

Fumito Morishima

Daisuke Sasaki

CTO

LSI Logic Engineer

He has experienced a wide range of design processes in LSI development at domestic semiconductor companies for 11 years since 2001. Since 2013, he has experienced the development of embedded CPU board with LSI designed by himself and has knowledge area up to software.

Fumito Morishima

CFO

Sales, Finance Control

From 2000 to 16 years, he was involved in development, sales, marketing and management at an embedded CPU board maker and acquired a wide range of business skills. He also has a business in Southeast Asia and has connections with Asia.

Takuya Sasaki

Tomohiro Namitsuka

Fumito Morishima

CAO

Software Engineer, Sales

Since 1998 he has been engaged in development of network management system for government offices mainly as software engineer of domestic electric machine maker. As an FAE of embedded CPU board maker since 2013, he has supported the development and mass production of many customers.

Tomohiro Namitsuka

CPO

Electronics Engineer

Since 2002, he has engaged in development of many embedded CPU boards. He has a wide range of knowledge and experience from circuit design to mass production of products for industrial applications, which require environmental resistance and reliability, and aims to provide low-cost and reliable spacecraft.

VISION

PRODUCT

NEWS

VISION

Make it Cheaper

Make it Easier

Anyone in Space

SERVICE

Space Grade Computer

Space Grade Computer

Space Grade Computer

Custom Development

Space Grade Computer

Space Grade Computer

Consulting

Space Grade Computer

Consulting

CLIENTS

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

ArkEdge Space Inc.

GITAI Japan, Inc.

ElevationSpace Inc.

PRODUCT

Cost-saving vs Reliability

Fault tolerance

Easy of use

Command & Data Handling

Onboard Computer (OBC)

SPECIFICATION

SC-OBC Module A1

Main FPGA Device

Clock Source Oscillators

Main CPU

Supported Operating System

Failure Detection/System Recovery

On Chip SRAM

On Board SRAM

NOR Flash Memory for Configuration Data

NOR Flash Memory for Program Data

FeRAM

Dedicated Communication Channels

FPGA User I/O Pins

PIC User I/O Pins

On Board Temperature Sensors

Watchdog Timer

Interface Connector

Input Voltage

Power Consumption

Operating Temperature

Dimensions

Mass

Price

SC-OBC Module A1

Interface Board custom development

Special Price Terms

Notice

IMAGE GALLARY

Example of Interface Board

Cubesat for SC-OBC space demonstration

Cubesat for SC-OBC space demonstration

Cubesat for SC-OBC space demonstration

Cubesat for SC-OBC space demonstration

Cubesat for SC-OBC space demonstration

NEWS

Mar. 7, 2022

Aug. 18, 2020

Jan. 14, 2020

Oct. 31, 2019

Sep. 25, 2018

June 1, 2018

May 29, 2018

COMPANY INFORMATION

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Yasushi Shoji

Fumito Morishima

Daisuke Sasaki

Daisuke Sasaki

Fumito Morishima

Daisuke Sasaki

Fumito Morishima