Platform: WPF & JavaScript
Industry: Space Solar Technology
Rocket Lab consulted SciChart for support with their space-grade solar technology to fuel renewable energy sources to power the next generation’s satellites and space missions. SciChart has been used by Rocket Lab for over a decade across both WPF and JavaScript platforms, and we’re excited to share the outcomes they’ve achieved with our chart library.
Who is Rocket Lab?
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company, providing launch services, spacecraft, components, and on-orbit management. Starting with the Electron rocket, now the second most launched U.S. rocket, they are developing Neutron for future large spacecraft missions. The company also offers complete spacecraft solutions, supplying flight-proven satellites, subsystems, and components that have supported over 1,700 global missions. Headquartered in Long Beach, California, Rocket Lab has facilities across the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand.
Rocket Lab’s solar products, tested with SciChart, currently power over 1,100 satellites, with another 500 scheduled for launch.
What Processes Do Rocket Labs Use?
Rocket Lab’s SolAero solar cells and assemblies are among the most advanced in the world, achieving the highest efficiency commercially available at 34% with more than 4 MW of power delivered for flight missions.
Space solar design and test software provides tools for developing, verifying, and optimizing engineering components and systems.
In Rocket Lab’s context, this involves rigorous testing of solar cells and solar cell arrays under conditions mimicking space environments.
What Challenges Were Rocket Labs Experiencing?
The design and testing of space-grade solar technologies, such as Next-Gen Z+ and IMM-β solar cells, present unique challenges. Ensuring performance, precision, and scalability requires specialized tools that surpass generic commercial solutions.
Rocket Lab’s testing environments are intense. Exposure to intense radiation, vacuum chambers, and extreme thermal cycling requires high-performance software. Processing massive datasets with precision under extreme test conditions is a critical requirement.
How Did SciChart Help Fuel Rocket Lab’s Full Potential?
Providing reliability and performance through the use of custom-developed solutions, SciChart excelled where more typical off-the-shelf solutions lacked flexibility or performance.
- High-Speed Data Rendering: SciChart’s Visual Xccelerator engine handles large datasets and high-frequency data streams in real-time across multiple platforms without slowdown.
- Real-Time Simulation via GUI: SciChart enables engineers to simulate test scenarios in real time via the GUI, using custom modifiers and API calls.
- Flexible and Customizable: Create tailored dashboards for diverse solar cell test conditions in WPF or JavaScript, with Linux support via Avalonia XPF, Custom Modifiers, and an expansive API for real-time modeling and simulations.
- Precise Data Visualization: Visualize immense, high-frequency solar cell performance data (current, voltage, efficiency) without delays, ensuring exact representation for stringent efficiency and reliability benchmarks.
- Scalable Production Support: SciChart supports Rocket Lab’s scalable production pipeline (over 4 MW annually), processing billions of data points in WPF and millions in JavaScript.
- Advanced Analysis Capabilities: Perform performance comparisons, overlay historical data, and identify degradation trends with unparalleled customization and flexibility for developers.
Rocket Lab’s solar products, tested with SciChart, currently power over 1,100 satellites, with another 500 scheduled for launch.
Using SciChart’s high-performance visualization tools, Rocket Lab’s engineers were able to efficiently process and analyze vast datasets. We not only played a role in test phases, but also during design and emulation workflows.
- Transform raw data into clear, interactive visuals for next-gen space-grade product development.
- Identify anomalies or deviations quickly.
- Monitor real-time data during tests.
- Analyze trends and correlations to optimize design and performance.
- Validate results with intuitive visual reports.
“SciChart is proud to be an essential part of Rocket Lab’s innovation in space-grade solar technology. Our high-performance data visualization software enables engineers to process and analyze complex test data with speed and accuracy, driving advancements that push the boundaries of what’s possible in space exploration.” Andrew Burnett-Thompson, CEO of SciChart.
Why Choose SciChart?
Used by over half of Fortune 500 companies in the aerospace and defense sector, we’re trusted by Government agencies globally and deployed across our NATO allies.
SciChart excels where open-source or off-the-shelf options fail, handling complex charting needs for pioneering aerospace and defense solutions.
What Do We Offer?
Explore the impactful features, performance and services we provide for mission-critical data visualization projects, making us the go-to choice when other chart libraries fail.
- Unrivalled Flexibility: Developers can choose to build fully custom implementations or use our out-of-the-box code samples, depending on project needs.
- Accelerated Deployment: Benefit from extensive documentation, examples, an active community, and top-rated support, all designed to reduce your deployment time.
- 64-bit Precision: SciChart is the only 64-bit precision charting library available across all major platforms: WPF, JavaScript, iOS, Android, Avalonia (Linux), and macOS.
- Guaranteed Performance & Reliability: SciChart ensures data stability, reliability, and high performance across all devices.
- Long-term Dependability: A sustainable business model guarantees product continuity, making SciChart a reliable choice for critical national security and aviation applications.
Backed by 20+ years of research, SciChart is a high-performance JavaScript, WPF, iOS, Android and Avalonia XPF chart library used to visualize pioneering data insights.
SciChart supports the rendering of complex, interactive, real-time charts with many millions of data points for demanding F1 racing teams, scientific institutions, medical research and financial applications and embedded systems that require high performance, rich interaction and smooth updates.
See what incredible work we’re supporting the aerospace industry and for design, test and emulation projects for the latest technology updates.
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