SERVIS-1 COTS Technical Knowledge Bases for Space Applications

Paper number

IAC-06-D1.P.2.04

Author

Mr. Kazumori Hama, Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF), Japan

Coauthor

Dr. Masatsugu Akiyama, Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF), Japan

Coauthor

Mr. Norio Natsuka, Japan

Coauthor

Mr. Hiroshi Kanai, Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF), Japan

Year

2006

Abstract

Space Environment Reliability Verification Integrated System (SERVIS) is being developed by the Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF) under the contract with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).  The purpose of the project is to establish technical knowledge bases including a parts database, parts evaluation guidelines and equipment design guidelines to utilize commercial off-the-shelf parts and technologies (COTS) under the space environment so that they can be utilized for space applications.  
  
 During the program, COTS are subjected to various ground environment tests including radiation tolerance test, and those COTS which have certain tolerance for those environments are verified in space environment in order to compare with the results of the ground tests. Verification tests are performed at parts level as well as equipment level. Advanced bus subsystem equipment are being developed utilizing up-to-date COTS for reducing their costs drastically and increasing their performance.

 SERVIS project has started in 1999 and two verification satellites are developed. The first satellite, SERVIS-1 was successfully launched by ROCKOT from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia on October 30, 2003 for 1000 km circular orbit and the second satellite, SERVIS-2 will be launched in 2008 or later.

 On board SERVIS-1, various COTS such as microprocessors, SRAMs and DRAMs, FPGAs or CCDs have been verified for 2 years. As a result, 60 percent of such COTS components have their ability to be used under low earth orbit environment. Their results are now being correlated with the ground tests results and assembled into three technical bases, which are COTS data base, pats evaluation guidelines and equipment design guidelines. This paper presents the current status of the project, space verification test results of SERVIS-1 and outline of the technical knowledge bases being created. 

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