Flight Software & Embedded Systems Engineering

Flight Software. Embedded Systems. Mission Critical.

SPASAR provides software architecture, embedded development and technical leadership for aerospace and safety-critical systems.

Flight Software · Avionics · Real-Time Systems · Safety-Critical Software

Reference modelConceptual / 01
Conceptual layered architecture showing mission applications, platform services, deterministic runtime, and hardware interfaces

01 / The context

Engineering complex software systems requires more than code.

Mission-critical software must remain deterministic, maintainable and verifiable while products, requirements and teams continue to evolve.

Real-Time Constraints

Execution timing, scheduling and resource usage must remain predictable under operational load.

Product Complexity

Software architecture must scale across products and missions without creating duplicated implementations.

Verification

Requirements, implementation and test evidence must remain connected as systems grow.

Hardware Integration

Flight software must integrate reliably across processors, buses, sensors, actuators and programmable logic.

02 / Capabilities

What we do

Focused engineering support across architecture, implementation, verification and technical decision-making.

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Flight Software & Avionics

Architecture and development of embedded software for spacecraft computers, avionics and mission-critical systems.

  • Architecture
  • OBC
  • RTOS
  • Interfaces
  • CCSDS / PUS
  • FDIR
  • Scheduling
Discuss flight software work
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Reusable Software Platforms

Software architectures designed to support multiple products and missions while minimizing product-specific complexity.

  • Platform separation
  • Hardware abstraction
  • Configuration
  • Components
  • Build architecture
  • Product lines
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Technical Leadership

Senior technical support for teams developing complex embedded and safety-critical systems.

  • Architecture reviews
  • Processes
  • Technical decisions
  • Verification
  • Mentoring
  • Cross-functional work

03 / Method

Engineering principles

Deterministic

Timing, resource usage and failure behavior should be understood and controlled.

Reusable

Product-specific functionality should build on stable, reusable platform capabilities.

Verifiable

Architecture should make requirements, behavior and evidence easier to understand and test.

Maintainable

Software should remain understandable and adaptable throughout the lifecycle of a product family.

Experience

Built across safety-critical industries

SPASAR combines more than a decade of safety-critical embedded software experience with aerospace avionics and flight-software leadership.

Experience spans embedded software architecture, reusable avionics platforms, engineering process development, RTOS-based systems, Linux application environments, hardware integration, verification, mentoring and technical leadership.

Industries
Automotive + Aerospace
Scope
Architecture to Integration
Systems
RTOS + Embedded Linux
Focus
System-level technical ownership
Technology directionConceptual / 02
Conceptual diagram showing a reusable platform and configuration producing three product variants

Technology direction

Toward more reusable spacecraft software

SPASAR is exploring technologies that make spacecraft software more reusable, configurable and efficient to integrate and verify across products and missions.

  1. Model-driven configuration
  2. Standardized component interfaces
  3. Deterministic runtime architectures
  4. Automated integration
  5. Verification tooling
Discuss a technology partnership

04 / Engagement

Work with SPASAR

Support can be scoped around a specific technical decision, a development program or an ongoing leadership need.

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