LOW-POWER SPACE COMPUTER

SpaceDev's Miniature Flight Computer (MFC) is to be launched on the tiny 100-lb. Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) satellite in December (www.spacedev.com). The general-purpose MFC has very low power consumption, running at 300 million instructions per sec. with only 6 watts...

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