Kuala lumpur: A global leader in space-grade and military-grade solid-state drives (SSD), announced the launch of its groundbreaking InterStellar series, a full line of radiation-hardened SSD drives. This next-generation product is the industry's first NVMe and SATA Rad-Hard SSD engineered for missions from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deep space exploration.
According to BERNAMA News Agency, the InterStellar series is engineered for both military and commercial applications and is designed to deliver unprecedented operational life in harsh radiation environments. It has already been adopted by leading space-qualified system manufacturers. Foremay's Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Jack Winters, highlighted the significance of the InterStellar series, stating that it serves as a "digital ark for the next century of space exploration." The series combines physical interception, chemical neutron capture, and AI-driven self-healing, providing a standard-sized solution for the space and defense industries.
The SSD is designed to mitigate the triple threat of Total Ionising Dose (TID), Single Event Effects (SEE), and Internal Electrostatic Discharge (IESD), which are conditions under which standard industrial SSDs often fail within months of orbital exposure. Foremay's proprietary Graded-Z shielding architecture effectively reduces raw 10,000 krad exposure to a manageable 500 krad threshold, ensuring hardware integrity in extreme environments like the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA).
Beyond physical shielding, the InterStellar features Foremay's Interstellar AI-Driven Block Management (IABM). This AI-at-the-Edge firmware uses machine learning to create a real-time "Radiation Risk Map." By monitoring predictive sensor data and Bit Error Rate (BER), the SSD proactively migrates mission-critical data away from "hot zones" impacted by high-energy heavy ions.
The architecture, combined with Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) and a radiation-hardened controller, maintains Single Event Latch-up immunity (SEL), establishing a level of Single Event Effects (SEE) mitigation previously unavailable in the SSD industry.