The main objectives of payload subsystem testing are to verify its design specifications, functionality, reliability, and compatibility with the rest of the satellite system. Depending on the type ...

The space segment equipment carried aboard the satellite can be classified under two functional areas, the bus and the payload. The chapter describes the basic characteristics of each of the bus ...

The HPAs are the biggest consumer of satellite DC power for a non‐processing payload. The chapter looks at the variations in subsystem architecture. The traveling‐wave tube amplifier (TWTA) subsystem ...

Prototype satellite payload built at the University of Iowa designed to provide refined data on the Earth's Van Allen radiation belts over an extended period of time measuring electron and proton ...

(Photo/ Supplied) A second New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) payload, hosted on a United States research satellite, has been successfully launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket.