moment that
matters.
Flash storage is probabilistic. Latency is defined by averages, not bounds. ASINE builds storage that behaves the same way at the worst moment as it does at the best. Qualified, fielded, available today.
Based on ASINE SmallSat Europe 2026 Technical Program · Published characterization data
"A drive where 99.999% of I/Os complete in 70µs and 0.01% take 120ms is not slow — it is broken."
Storage in the Field
NAND cannot overwrite in place. As the drive fills it pauses writes to consolidate free space. A drive rated at 7 GB/s may stall for 200 milliseconds during housekeeping. In a UAV sensor fusion pipeline or a real-time control loop, that stall breaks the mission.
Consumer SSDs are specified to 0°C. The system that fails to boot at −25°C is not degraded — it is non-operational. High-altitude cold start, arctic vehicle deployment, and unheated ground support equipment all operate below the consumer specification floor.
TLC NAND has a finite write endurance — typically 1,000 to 3,000 program/erase cycles per cell. As cells approach their limit, error rates increase and the controller compensates silently — until it cannot. The drive that passed qualification in year one fails in year eight.
Commercial storage vendors routinely substitute NAND flash, controllers and firmware without notification. Without a BOM freeze policy, the component that exits qualification is not the component that ships in year ten.
At 130 km/h, a 100-millisecond storage stall during garbage collection means the vehicle's situational awareness model is 3.61 metres out of date. ASINE SCM reduces this to under 4 centimetres.
Standard NAND moves data through a DRAM write buffer before committing to flash cells. A power interruption during that transfer corrupts the dataset. ASINE's power-loss protection completes or cancels writes atomically.
Behind the Numbers
Four interlocking design commitments. Each addresses a failure mode the specification doesn't. Together they define what deterministic flash storage means in practice.
Under Sustained Load
Performance
Deadline-aware FTL architecture. Garbage collection is scheduled and bounded — not reactive. The host sees consistent latency at every percentile, under sustained load, aged drives, mixed workloads.
Technical paperEnvironment
I-Temp and Extreme-Temp variants. MIL-STD-810H shock and vibration. Conduction cooling with no airflow required. Qualified at altitude — operational at 150,000 feet since 2008.
See datasheetsSecurity
Encryption implemented in the controller silicon, not the firmware layer. Secure erase triggered by hardware signal, independent of host OS. All worldwide sanitization standards supported.
Technical paperGovernance
The component you qualify is the component you receive in year fifteen. Non-China supply chain. Grade-A NAND. IPC Class-3 PCB. Twelve-month minimum product change notification.
Technical paperIntegrated,
Fielded.
Not a roadmap. Not a reference design. Hardware operational in active programs across defense, aerospace, and industrial platforms — deployed by organizations that do not accept storage failure as an outcome.
ASINE XMC — conduction-cooled, defense deployed
Industrial & Space
- Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
- Elbit Systems
- Israel Aerospace Industries
- Toshiba · Hitachi · Mitsubishi Electric
- Ramon Space
- RADA Electronic Industries
Above All.
25 years. M-Systems lineage. Active programs across defense, aerospace, and space. Direct engineering partnership available from first contact, through qualification, and across the program lifecycle.
