Mercury Systems, Inc. announced the first prototype shipments of the company’s 3U TRRUST-Stor™ VPX RT space-qualified secure solid-state drives to two suppliers of low Earth orbit satellites. This device is the first commercial SSD leveraging VITA 78 SpaceVPX™ standards to reduce customer cost and mitigate program risk. In addition to commercial satellite applications, this device is ideally suited for high-altitude aircraft, airborne weapons and mission-critical ground computing systems.