HEICO Corporation’s 3D-plus Subsidiary Supplies Critical Components on Solar Orbiter Spacecraft
February 10 2020 - 11:05AM
Business Wire
HEICO Corporation (NYSE: HEI.A) (NYSE HEI) today announced that
its Buc, France-based 3D PLUS subsidiary supplied numerous
mission-critical and high-reliability components on the Solar
Orbiter space mission, which successfully launched from Cape
Canaveral, FL overnight. 3D PLUS is part of HEICO’s Electronic
Technologies Group.
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Solar Orbiter will provide the first views of the Sun's
uncharted polar regions, giving unprecedented insight into how our
parent star works. The mission will also investigate how intense
radiation and energetic particles being blasted out from the Sun
and carried by the solar wind through the Solar System impact our
home planet, allowing us to better understand and predict periods
of stormy 'space weather', which can have serious impacts on
navigation, electronics and communications.
The Solar Orbiter is the result of an international
collaboration led by the European Space Agency (ESA) and including
the U.S.A.’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
with the spacecraft being developed by Airbus in France.
Among the ten instruments on the Solar Orbiter, 3D PLUS is a key
component supplier on many of them, including the
Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX), which performs
hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy of solar flares and will allow
highly precise spectro-imaging of solar flares in the field of hard
X-rays. The STIX instrument embeds many 3D PLUS volatile and
non-volatile memory parts, including 3D PLUS’ 512 Mbit SRAM, 64
Gbit NAND Flash and 8Mbit EEPROM modules.
3D PLUS also supplied highly-reliable SRAM, SDRAM and NOR Flash
modules in the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI), as well
as SDRAM and NAND Flash modules in the spacecraft’s Energetic
Particle Detector (EPD). 3D PLUS memories offer the smallest
footprint, which results from 3D PLUS’ significant expertise in
miniaturization, while providing very high densities for electronic
designs.
In addition to the memory modules, the Solar Orbiter’s Extreme
Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument integrates 3D PLUS high
integration and space qualified all-in-one Latch-up Current Limiter
(LCL), which 3D PLUS believes offers the best solution for power
lines protection in advanced high performance electronics and
memory banks in space applications.
Pierre Maurice, 3D PLUS’s Co-Founder and President, remarked,
“3D PLUS is proud to contribute to such a challenging mission with
ambitious scientific objectives, since Solar Orbiter, joined to the
Parker Solar Probe mission, will allow unprecedented insight into
how Earth’s parent star works.”
Laurans A. Mendelson, HEICO’s Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, along with Victor H. Mendelson, HEICO’s Co-President and
Chief Executive Officer of its Electronic Technologies Group,
commented, “We congratulate ESA on leading this momentus project,
along with its partners at NASA, Airbus, 3D PLUS and the numerous
other contributors to this effort. HEICO takes great pride in 3D
PLUS' involvement in this historic mission.”
3D PLUS is a French SME, world leader in the design and
manufacturing of high-performance and high reliability components
miniaturized with its unique 3D vertical interconnect
technology.
With more than 160,000 modules into space early 2020 and a
production of more than 30,000 space qualified modules per year in
its facility nearby Paris, 3D PLUS provides all stakeholders of the
global space industry for over 20 years for telecommunications
applications, Earth observation, navigation, launchers and human
spaceflight, science missions, small satellites and
constellations.
HEICO Corporation is engaged primarily in the design,
production, servicing and distribution of products and services to
certain niche segments of the aviation, defense, space, medical,
telecommunications and electronics industries through its
Hollywood, Florida-based Flight Support Group and its Miami,
Florida-based Electronic Technologies Group. HEICO's customers
include a majority of the world's airlines and overhaul shops, as
well as numerous defense and space contractors and military
agencies worldwide, in addition to medical, telecommunications and
electronics equipment manufacturers. For more information about
HEICO, please visit our website at http://www.heico.com.
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