ASTRO-H will maintain orbit near the equator and gather data for three years. It will be outfitted with an array of innovative technologies, including four telescopes, a soft X-ray spectrometer (SXS), a soft X-ray imaging system (SXI), a hard X-ray imaging system (HXI), and a soft gamma-ray detector (SGD).
Performing an environmental test means subjecting the device or system to certain environmental conditions (cold, dry heat, relative humidity, etc.) in order to check if the operational parameters remain within the range defined by the applicable regulations.
LISA Pathfinder is paving the way for future missions by testing in flight the very concept of gravitational wave detection: it will put two test masses in a near-perfect gravitational free-fall and control and measure their motion with unprecedented accuracy.
Environmental testing provides a useful tool for evaluation, qualification and screening of EEE components for high-reliability applications.
Various types of stresses can be applied to the products in a controlled manner thus allowing to accelerate the appearance of latent defects and consequently to assess the ability of the products to meet project requirements
The easiest response could be: SpaceFiber is a multi-Gbits/s, on-board network technology for spaceflight applications which complements well known SpaceWire network and both are for the satellites that, what Ethernet for us on the ground.
Supercapacitors also called electrochemical double layer capacitors are energy storage devices storing a high volume of electric energy in the double layer between a high surface area electrode and an electrolyte. As compared to batteries no chemical reactions should occur at the electrodes.
Silicon Carbide (SiC) presents many advantages over Silicon and even other wide band gap semiconductors, while maturity of the technology increases quickly