Ecliptic^® Products

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Ecliptic supplies several families of rugged, aerospace-grade avionics and related software, analog and digital video and imaging systems, rugged stand-alone sensors, ground test and support equipment, and small space-payload capabilities.

Our avionics units provide a variety of functions for controlling and monitoring electrical and mechanical functions onboard remote platforms, allowing for real-time and stored configuration changes, flexible subsystem sequencing and data handling, store-and-forward data-transfer capability and operational flexibility.

If you're seeking improved situational awareness on your rocket, spacecraft or other remote platform, you can count on our renowned integrated RocketCam™ systems—the world's leading brand of cost-effective onboard imaging systems.

Whether in Earth orbit, at the Moon or Mars or almost anywhere in between or on these solar-system bodies, we'll get your picture, capitalizing on our experience with a variety of RocketCam™ sensor options.

But we don't stop here. Ecliptic also provides several cost-effective capabilities for supporting small payload systems for use with secondary payloads on rockets and spacecraft or for meeting packaging challenges on aircraft and other remote platforms.

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Subsystem Controllers

Our subsystem controllers involve a central avionics unit interfaced to one or more additional avionics units, sensors or mechanical devices on the host platform. These controllers are tailored via hardware and software configuration options to largely control and monitor a given subsystem on the host platform while avoiding complicated interfaces with the other platform subsystems, ultimately simplifying the integration, test and operational phases of the project's lifecycle.

Our new slice-based controller architecture (PCI-104 form factor) provides enhanced modularity and configuration flexibility in a smaller, lighter avionics package.

Data Handling Unit (DHU) on NASA's LCROSS lunar impactor mission (9 imaging sensors)

Sequencer unit for secondary payload deployments on a launch vehicle

Propulsion subsystem controller for small spacecraft

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Integrated RocketCam™ Systems

To understand and appreciate what your remote, complex system is doing and experiencing in extreme environments, you don't need a high-end, expensive science-quality imaging system. Ecliptic's RocketCam™ systems provide engineering and PR-quality situational awareness within a small, rugged, cost-effective package, and are available in analog, digital, and hybrid analog-digital configurations.

RocketCam™ AVS Analog Video System Designed for simplicity and minimum footprint Integrated camera, battery pack, analog transmitter and control circuitry Various configuration options	RocketCam™ DVS Digital Video System Interfaces for up to 16 sensors One to four simultaneous video streams Stored and event-driven sequencing Various compression options Various output data formats	RocketCam™ DVA Digital Video Assembly Combines AVS and DVS features Integral battery and transmitter Interfaces for 2 camera outputs Sequential camera operation Four standard compression levels Four discrete commands
Radiation-Tolerant RocketCam™ DVS Designed for years of continuous operation Incorporates most popular DVS features Various sensor options	Ground Support Equipment Controls DVS during test and ops Displays sensor and engineering metadata Can be tailored to each application

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RocketCam™ Sensor Options

We offer many sensor options for our integrated RocketCam™ systems, from ruggedized visible and IR cameras, to illuminators, to high-speed and high-definition cameras. Please visit our sensor options page for more info.

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Small Payload Systems

Our experience with RocketCam™ has led to the development of a family of small payload carriers (mounted externally or internally on the host platform structure) providing cost-effective small payload carrier, control and deployment capability.