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Aug 24, 2026

What Happens When You Send an Ethernet Board to Space?

Sending networking hardware to space comes with some pretty strange engineering problems. From radiation flipping bits to tin whiskers creating shorts, we’re looking at what Ethernet boards have to survive once they leave Earth.

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Aug 24, 2026

What Happens When You Send an Ethernet Board to Space?

Sending networking hardware to space comes with some pretty strange engineering problems. From radiation flipping bits to tin whiskers creating shorts, we’re looking at what Ethernet boards have to survive once they leave Earth.

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Aug 24, 2026

What Happens When You Send an Ethernet Board to Space?

Sending networking hardware to space comes with some pretty strange engineering problems. From radiation flipping bits to tin whiskers creating shorts, we’re looking at what Ethernet boards have to survive once they leave Earth.

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Aug 24, 2026

What Happens When You Send an Ethernet Board to Space?

Guides & Explainers

Aug 24, 2026

What Happens When You Send an Ethernet Board to Space?

Guides & Explainers

Aug 13, 2026

Everything That Will Go Wrong When You Try To Manufacture Your Own Boards.

Guides & Explainers

The Pick and Place machine

Aug 13, 2026

Everything That Will Go Wrong When You Try To Manufacture Your Own Boards.

Guides & Explainers

The Pick and Place machine

Mar 1, 2025

Radiation Testing for BotBlox Hardware for Space (LEO, MEO and GEO)

Compliance & Testing

Satellite orbiting Earth with the sun rising over the horizon

Mar 1, 2025

Radiation Testing for BotBlox Hardware for Space (LEO, MEO and GEO)

Compliance & Testing

Satellite orbiting Earth with the sun rising over the horizon

Feb 8, 2025

BotBlox Compact Pressure-Tolerant Ethernet Infrastructure

Product Updates

Autonomous underwater vehicle exploring the seabed, illuminating sand and coral with its headlights in a deep blue ocean environment.

Feb 8, 2025

BotBlox Compact Pressure-Tolerant Ethernet Infrastructure

Product Updates

Autonomous underwater vehicle exploring the seabed, illuminating sand and coral with its headlights in a deep blue ocean environment.

Jan 17, 2025

Designing NDAA and EO 13981 Compliant Drone Components

Compliance & Testing

Render of a BotBlox switch board with an NDAA Compliant badge and an Executive Order 13981 Compliant label

Jan 17, 2025

Designing NDAA and EO 13981 Compliant Drone Components

Compliance & Testing

Render of a BotBlox switch board with an NDAA Compliant badge and an Executive Order 13981 Compliant label

Jan 17, 2025

Updates to NDAA Compliance and BlueUAS

Compliance & Testing

Blue UAS logo and NDAA Compliant badge on a blue background

Jan 17, 2025

Updates to NDAA Compliance and BlueUAS

Compliance & Testing

Blue UAS logo and NDAA Compliant badge on a blue background

Nov 11, 2024

BotBlox ARIES Switch Management Software

Software

Technician plugging Ethernet patch cables into rack-mounted network switches

Nov 11, 2024

BotBlox ARIES Switch Management Software

Software

Technician plugging Ethernet patch cables into rack-mounted network switches

Nov 11, 2024

MIL-STD-810H Compliance Testing for BotBlox Hardware

Compliance & Testing

MIL-STD-810H Certified shield badge on a dark background

Nov 11, 2024

MIL-STD-810H Compliance Testing for BotBlox Hardware

Compliance & Testing

MIL-STD-810H Certified shield badge on a dark background

Oct 7, 2024

UbiSwitch Airborne Tests

Compliance & Testing

Military jet flying low over wooded hills during flight testing

Oct 7, 2024

UbiSwitch Airborne Tests

Compliance & Testing

Military jet flying low over wooded hills during flight testing

Aug 23, 2024

SPEBlox Long Can Now Be Ordered with PoDL Enabled

Product Updates

Render of the SpeBlox Long single pair Ethernet board on a light background

Aug 23, 2024

SPEBlox Long Can Now Be Ordered with PoDL Enabled

Product Updates

Render of the SpeBlox Long single pair Ethernet board on a light background

Jul 12, 2024

Understanding BotBlox Board Revision Changes

Product Updates

Technical line drawing of a BotBlox switch board labelled BB-SWI-B-1, with a magnifier highlighting a revised component

Jul 12, 2024

Understanding BotBlox Board Revision Changes

Product Updates

Technical line drawing of a BotBlox switch board labelled BB-SWI-B-1, with a magnifier highlighting a revised component

Dec 18, 2023

Which BotBlox Switches Are Best Suited for GigE Vision Applications?

Guides & Explainers

Two FLIR machine-vision cameras with the GigE Vision logo

Dec 18, 2023

Which BotBlox Switches Are Best Suited for GigE Vision Applications?

Guides & Explainers

Two FLIR machine-vision cameras with the GigE Vision logo

Dec 9, 2023

Ardupilot Releases TCP/IP over Ethernet

Integration & Ecosystem

ArduPilot logo on a dark grid background

Dec 9, 2023

Ardupilot Releases TCP/IP over Ethernet

Integration & Ecosystem

ArduPilot logo on a dark grid background

Oct 19, 2023

What Is Single Pair Ethernet?

Guides & Explainers

Render of a compact Single Pair Ethernet jack with its mating connector

Oct 19, 2023

What Is Single Pair Ethernet?

Guides & Explainers

Render of a compact Single Pair Ethernet jack with its mating connector

Oct 15, 2023

BotBlox Joins the Single Pair Ethernet System Alliance

Product Updates

BotBlox Systems and Single Pair Ethernet System Alliance logos on a dark background

Oct 15, 2023

BotBlox Joins the Single Pair Ethernet System Alliance

Product Updates

BotBlox Systems and Single Pair Ethernet System Alliance logos on a dark background

Mar 23, 2023

UbiSwitch Preliminary High Temperature Tests

Compliance & Testing

Thermal image of the heatsinked UbiSwitch during high-temperature testing, spot reading 185.6

Mar 23, 2023

UbiSwitch Preliminary High Temperature Tests

Compliance & Testing

Thermal image of the heatsinked UbiSwitch during high-temperature testing, spot reading 185.6

Feb 26, 2022

SwitchBlox Nano 5V Output Performance

Performance & Benchmarks

SwitchBlox Nano three-port Ethernet switch board on a dark studio background

Feb 26, 2022

SwitchBlox Nano 5V Output Performance

Performance & Benchmarks

SwitchBlox Nano three-port Ethernet switch board on a dark studio background

Feb 21, 2022

What Is the Maximum Practical Length for Single Pair Ethernet (1000BASE-T1)?

Guides & Explainers

Black RJ45 Ethernet patch cable coiled on a grey studio background

Feb 21, 2022

What Is the Maximum Practical Length for Single Pair Ethernet (1000BASE-T1)?

Guides & Explainers

Black RJ45 Ethernet patch cable coiled on a grey studio background

Jul 26, 2021

Blue Robotics Ethernet Switch: Test Results

Performance & Benchmarks

BotBlox Systems and Blue Robotics logos over a thermal-camera view of the Ethernet switch board

Jul 26, 2021

Blue Robotics Ethernet Switch: Test Results

Performance & Benchmarks

BotBlox Systems and Blue Robotics logos over a thermal-camera view of the Ethernet switch board

Jul 16, 2021

SwitchBlox 5V Output Performance

Performance & Benchmarks

BotBlox SwitchBlox Rev E five-port Ethernet switch board photographed on a grey studio background

Jul 16, 2021

SwitchBlox 5V Output Performance

Performance & Benchmarks

BotBlox SwitchBlox Rev E five-port Ethernet switch board photographed on a grey studio background

Jul 5, 2021

What's the Best Communication Bus for Robots and Drones?

Guides & Explainers

Green networking PCB with glowing status LEDs mounted inside the carbon-fiber electronics bay of a drone

Jul 5, 2021

What's the Best Communication Bus for Robots and Drones?

Guides & Explainers

Green networking PCB with glowing status LEDs mounted inside the carbon-fiber electronics bay of a drone
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