Abstract: A power system that includes a power bus; at least one power source system; and the at least one power source system is configured to provide power to the power bus for operation of the at least one powered system. The power system further includes a power controller configured to control power provided by the at least one power source system for operation of the at least one powered system and includes a switch and an energy storage device implemented by the power controller connected to the power bus.

Abstract: A multi-dimensional Burst Link Access Streaming Transmission (BLAST) architecture, which provides flexible physical apparatus for balanced performance of data throughput, latency, and reliability of transmission (e.g. graceful degradation). A schedule is sent from a master node to alert targeted nodes regarding messages to be sent. The master node uses a P-Band transmission link operating a regular intervals to synchronize the system in preparation for receipt of a message over a synchronous link. Each node has the capability of sending and receiving synchronous and asynchronous messages.