Instrumentation for space

Author

Cole, Timothy D. ; Frank, Larry ; Ballard, Benjamin W. ; Henshaw, Robert M.

Author_Institution

Appl. Phys. Lab., Johns Hopkins Univ., USA

Volume

2

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

12/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

22

Abstract

The primary drivers for space instruments are the environment and survivability, support assets, delivery cost, and lack of accessibility. Survivability deals primarily with environments, such as launch and depressurization, extremes of temperature, high vacuum, radiation, and hypervelocity impacts. The cost to deployment is directly coupled to launch services, which are inherently expensive. These costs are nonlinear functions of the mass and volume of satellite payloads. The “user interfaces” for space-borne instruments are high-cost assets because they include mission operations centers, satellite hacking station(s), and ground networks. All of these issues demand high reliability

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; reliability; space vehicle electronics; delivery cost; deployment costs; depressurization; environment; ground networks; high reliability; high-cost assets; hypervelocity impacts; launch; mission operations centers; nonlinear functions; satellite hacking station; satellite payloads; space instrumentation; space instruments; space-borne instruments; support assets; survivability; temperature extremes; user interfaces; Astronomy; Buildings; Costs; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Low earth orbit satellites; Payloads; Physics; Space vehicles; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1094-6969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5289.809128

Filename

809128