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Lead developer here. The intent from the start was to make an open-source design for the explicit purpose of encouraging adoption. The cubesat and smallsat in
by ooterness 4y ago
Lead developer here. The intent from the start was to make an open-source design for the explicit purpose of encouraging adoption. The cubesat and smallsat industry as a whole could really use more standardization.
In short: Writing a white-paper saying "plz use Ethernet in your cubesat" is one thing. Writing one that says "plz use Ethernet, we're using it for all of our new cubesats, and by the way here's the source code for the Ethernet switch" is quite another.
For us, the main advantage is having a mixed-media switch. The Slingshot-1 cubesat launched July 2022 literally has UARTs and gigabit Ethernet (SGMII) on the same LAN.