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3D PLUS has more than 210,000 microelectronics components in space, and more than 25 years of flight heritage with no reported failure. Our Flight Heritage is expanding continuously with products launched in Space every month in LEO, MEO and GEO orbits, for deep space exploration missions, for satellite constellation fleets, and for governmental missions in Europe, America, and Asia. Our Flagship missions include Mars 2020, Mars Science Laboratory, Rosetta, New Horizons, Juno, OneWeb, AlphaSat, Sentinel, Ariane 5, ISS, Parker Solar Probe, Insight, and many more.
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The CASPEX family offers high resolution and high performance space grade camera heads, specifically designed for demanding space applications. Leveraging 3D PLUS’s advanced packaging technology, each camera head integrates a high resolution image sensor with a user-reconfigurable FPGA-based electronic architecture. This setup allows for configurable embedded image processing and interfacing, ensuring versatility in various space missions.
3D PLUS 4Mpx Monochrome Space Camera Head and 4Mpx RGB Space Camera Head are engineered to deliver exceptional performance in space environments. These space-qualified cameras embed all necessary components to operate their 4Mpx CMOS image sensors and FPGA within a compact volume of 35x35x23mm³. This includes DC-DC converters, latch-up protection, and processing and storage memories, ensuring reliable operation in space.
The camera modules feature a configurable electrical interface through a 55-pin PGA matrix, which includes 12 LVDS pairs, 13 general-purpose I/Os, a JTAG interface for FPGA configuration, and a power supply interface ranging from 5V to 9V. The design provides dedicated optical, mechanical, and thermal interfaces, facilitating seamless integration into space optical instruments.
The CASPEX 4M Space Camera Head is renowned for its radiation performances, making it ideal for scientific imaging, platform and payload monitoring, star tracking, and navigation applications. Its versatility and reliability have led to its selection for multiple missions, including Mars 2020 Perseverance rover’s SUPERCAM instrument, NASA’s Mars Sample Return program ( MSR-ERO, MSR-STA) and DART mission (LICIACube’s LEIA Camera), and OneWeb’s Auriga Startracker. With flight heritage since 2019, this camera head has proven its worth in the harshest space environments.
All-in-one space qualified camera head :
High level of miniaturization and optimization :
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Spectral Response for CASPEX 4Mpx Camera Head. 3D PLUS
Each 3D PLUS standard product and SiP solution are defined by a specific part number based on the part number decoder provided below. The ordering information consist as a minimum of the following 3 items for fully define a product:
For High Reliability products or SiPs for Aerospace applications, a Source Control Drawing (SCD#) referenced 3DPA-xxxx is available for each product. It shall be used for its procurement in addition to other ordering information. Camera Part Number Decoder
Camera evaluation kits are ready to use evaluation and prototyping environment compatible with 3D PLUS camera heads products, including hardware and software tools to support the use and integration of the camera heads. It allows configuration and operating of the camera heads in a test environment (instrument integration, optical bench, testing facilities).
CASPEX 4Mpx Evaluation Board
3D PLUS space camera heads family offers several options for the configuration of its cameras, all compliant with ECSS-QST-60-02C ESA development standard
Other technical documentation is available under request: IBIS, RTL, Step and Mechanical file, Radiation Report.
3D PLUS 4Mpx Space Camera Head is succesfully used as part of SuperCam Remote MicroImager (RMI) onboard Perseverance rover, roaming the surface of Mars since February 2021.
