ABSTRACT
The book will train future electronic packaging engineers to apply first-principles concepts to designing electronic hardware capable of surviving the space environment. With the advent of small satellites and cheaper and quicker access to space, the electronic packaging engineer (EP), who once only designed chassis box electronics, has now seen the box become the spacecraft, as seen in CubeSats. Electronic packaging now extends to the spacecraft bus and includes knowledge of spacecraft-level components such as solar panels, reaction control, and attitude control components. Radiation, which used to be commonly ignored at the box level, now becomes imperative to the working design at the spacecraft level. Reliability needs to be designed in place, and environmental testing becomes a check mechanism and does not in of itself determine adherence to environmental requirements. The hardware is expected, not hoped, to survive thermal vacuum and vibration testing.
