Foremay Launches Radiation-Hardened Space-Grade SSD

KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 (Bernama) -- Foremay Inc, 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.

Engineered for both military and commercial applications, the InterStellar series is designed to deliver unprecedented operational life in the harshest radiation environments, and it has been adopted by leading space-qualified system manufacturers.

“The InterStellar is not just a storage device; it is a digital ark for the next century of space exploration,” said Foremay chief technology officer, Dr Jack Winters in a statement.

He emphasised that the combination of physical interception, chemical neutron capture, and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven self-healing provides the space and defence industries with a standard-sized solution that can survive the journey to the stars.

The drive is designed to mitigate the triple threat of Total Ionising Dose (TID), Single Event Effects (SEE), and Internal Electrostatic Discharge (IESD), conditions under which standard industrial SSDs often fail within months of orbital exposure.

Foremay utilises a proprietary Graded-Z shielding architecture, which combines patent-pending and proprietary technologies. This innovation effectively reduces raw 10,000 krad exposure to a manageable 500 krad threshold, ensuring hardware integrity across 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" struck by high-energy heavy ions.

The architecture, coupled 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.

-- BERNAMA