Abstract: Systems and methods reduce development, integration and testing time of a spacecraft implemented with one or more reconfigurable processor boards. Mission spacecraft design tools design, configure, simulate and analyze the spacecraft based upon constraints of the mission requirements. The mission spacecraft design tools utilize a database of defined module specifications and firmware components. One or more RPBs are programmed based upon the configuration and interfaced to other end item components defined by the configuration to form the spacecraft.

Abstract: The present invention includes a new system and method for the construction of agricultural marketing plans for agricultural producers. The present invention further includes a system and method for mass customization and delivery of the plans to producers and other interested parties, including electronic delivery of the plans and associated marketing information on an individualized basis. One aspect of the present invention involves calculating an optimized crop insurance revenue plan. Another aspect of the present invention relates to the quantification of price risk and the quantification of financial risk and the combination of these different types of risks to determine an overall risk for an agricultural operation.

Abstract: The back surface of a thinned charged-coupled device (CCD) is treated to eliminate the backside potential well that appears in a conventional thinned CCD during backside illumination. The backside of the CCD includes a delta layer of high-concentration dopant confined to less than one monolayer of the crystal semiconductor. The thinned, delta-doped CCD is used to determine the energy of a very low-energy particle that penetrates less than 1.0 nm into the CCD, such as a proton having energy less than 10 keV.