Title :
Out of this world products-designing for space
Author :
Mulkern, Joseph H. ; Lommasson, G.T.
Author_Institution :
BF Goodrich Aerosp., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
Designing products for the space environment has its own set of rules and concerns, but by understanding this knowledge you too can put products into space. This paper presents some of the concerns and criteria for power supply/power system design intended for space platforms. This paper first describes the space environment and some of the areas of note to a power supply designer. Next some of the system level issues of space platforms is discussed
Keywords :
power supplies to apparatus; space vehicle power plants; EMC; EMI; fault tolerance; power supply design; power system design; products design; radiation; reliability; shock; space environment; space platforms; system level issues; temperature; vacuum operation; vibration; Artificial satellites; Atmosphere; Batteries; Capacitors; Circuit topology; Earth; Plastic packaging; Power supplies; Rockets; Sea level;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1999. APEC '99. Fourteenth Annual
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5160-6
DOI :
10.1109/APEC.1999.749500
