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Texas Instruments has one of the longest space-flight histories of
any semiconductor vendor. Even before Texas Instruments engineer
Jack Kilby conceived and built the first integrated circuit (IC) in
September 1958, Texas Instruments transistors had flown into
space on the U.S.’s first satellite, Explorer 1, which launched on
Jan. 31 that same year.
Since then, products from Texas Instruments have flown
on many space missions. Notable and historic missions with
Texas Instruments products onboard include:
• Telstar 1, the first broadcast TV satellite
• Apollo 11, marking the first man on the moon
• Mariner 2, the first successful interplanetary spacecraft
• Voyager 1, still traveling after 40 years and now the farthest
a human-made object from Earth
• Every Space Shuttle mission from 1981-2011
• Navigational satellites supporting GPS and the Global
Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS)
• The Hubble space telescope
• The International Space Station
• Rosetta and Philae, the European Space Agency comet
orbiter and lander, respectively
• The Mars Rover
• Mangalyaan, the Indian Space Research Organization
Mars orbiter
• KickSat, a group of 104 microsatellites launched on a single
rocket into low Earth orbit in 2014
Former Texas Instruments researcher Mary Ellen Weber served
as an astronaut on Discovery Space Shuttle mission space
transportation system (STS)-70.
Numerous commercial, scientific and governmental satellites
using Texas Instruments products have launched since 1958 and
continue to launch weekly.
Through its acquisitions of Unitrode in 1999 and National
The semiconductor in 2011, Texas Instruments added significant
product breadth, expertise, and technology to its internal space-grade semiconductor capabilities. Building on this long heritage
in space flight, Texas Instruments continues to innovate and
bring new products to the space ecosystem. Texas Instruments
offers one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of ICs for space
applications, covering a wide range of device types. Power
management, data converters, amplifiers, clocks and timing,
interface, processors, and sensors are just a few of the device
types Texas Instruments provides for space electronics systems.
Texas Instruments’ portfolio includes both Class-V qualified
manufacturer list (QML) and radiation-hardness assured (RHA) ICs,
demonstrating the company’s long-standing commitment to the
space electronics market.
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