Mercury Systems is a technology company serving the aerospace and defense industries, acting as a manufacturer of open architecture computer hardware and software. They provide secure embedded processing modules, avionics mission computers, rugged servers, and trusted microelectronics for space applications. Mercury Systems has over 40 years of experience developing innovative, space-qualified products, including RF and microwave components, and solid-state data recorders, partnering with organizations like NASA and BlueHalo (for U.S. Space Force programs). Their products are utilized in satellite communications, launch vehicles, and programs like the Mars Rovers and EMIT.
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Mercury’s 8GB DDR4 memory components have an operating temperature range of -55 to +125°C.
Mercury’s RH5210 power supply enables advanced edge-processing applications for AI processing in orbit.
Mercury Systems manufactures the RH5210 in a DMEA-accredited facility.
Mercury Systems, Inc. unveiled their new RH5210 radiation-tolerant power module at the 37th Space Symposium.
Solar Orbiter will spend from 2022-03-14 to 2022-04-06 inside the orbit of Mercury.
The SpIRIT mission will space-qualify three technologies: TheMIS (Thermal Management Integrated System), Mercury (an adaptive autonomous low-latency communications module), and an Australian-developed high-efficiency electric propulsion system.
RUAG Space thermal insulation is used on the Mercury probe of the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission, which has been in space since October 2018.
Wally Funk, a member of the Mercury 13 who completed astronaut medical exams six decades earlier, flew on New Shepard NS-16.
Mercury acquired Pentek for an all-cash purchase price of $65,000,000 subject to net working capital and net debt adjustments.
For Mercury’s fiscal year ending 2022-07-01, Pentek is expected to generate revenue of approximately $20,000,000 with profit margins in line with Mercury’s.
The 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight date coincides with the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and falls 60 years to the day after Alan Shepard became the first American in space on the suborbital Mercury 3 launch.
Cobham Mission Systems designed John Glenn’s breathing regulator used in Project Mercury in 1962.
L3Harris performed the successful demonstration with support from Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. and Mercury Systems.
Solar Orbiter is equipped with a sunshield that is based on the sunshield used by ESA’s BepiColombo mission to Mercury.
The joint European and Japanese BepiColombo orbiter launched last year on a seven-year journey to Mercury using four electric thrusters from QinetiQ.
Spire Global paid Mercury Public Affairs, LLC $90,000 in 2016 for Washington representation.
Airbus Defence and Space is the prime contractor for ESA’s portion of BepiColombo and led a team of 83 companies from 16 countries in building the Mercury Planetary Orbiter, the carrier module, and the sunshield.
BepiColombo builds on research from NASA’s 2018-03-10, which performed three flybys of Mercury in 1974 and 1975.
BepiColombo launched to Mercury on 2018-10-19 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.
BepiColombo builds on research from NASA’s Messenger, which orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015 before crashing into the planet’s surface.