Mongoose-V

The Mongoose-V 32-bit microprocessor for spacecraft onboard computer applications is a radiation-hardened and expanded 10–15 MHz version of the MIPS R3000 CPU. Mongoose-V was developed by Synova of Melbourne, Florida, USA, with support from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

The Mongoose-V processor first flew on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite launched in November 2000 where it functioned as the main flight computer. A second Mongoose-V controlled the satellite's solid-state data recorder.

The Mongoose-V requires 5 volts and is packaged into a 256-pin ceramic quad flatpack (CQFP).[1]

Examples of spacecraft that use the Mongoose-V include:

  • Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)
  • NASA's Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), launched in June 2001, carried a Mongoose-V flight computer similar to that on EO-1.
  • NASA's Space Technology 5 series of microsatellites
  • CONTOUR
  • TIMED
  • Pluto probe New Horizons[2]

See also
  • RAD750 Power PC
  • LEON
  • ERC32
  • Radiation hardening
  • Communications survivability
  • Faraday cage
  • Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, Vanderbilt University
  • Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
  • MESSENGER Mercury probe
  • Mars rovers
  • TEMPEST

References
  1. 57.3.2 Synova Inc Mongoose V. Extreme Environment Electronics. 19 December 2017. pp. 660–661. ISBN 9781439874318.
  2. A 3D model of NASA's New Horizons, a mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt., pluto.jhuapl.edu (Website by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, access-date: November 4, 2022)


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