Reliable and Resilient
Radiation Services for Defense, Civil & Government Applications
We specialize in elite radiation testing and analysis on space missions, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and resiliency in every mission.
Explore Our Tailored Test Services
Below is a tailored, program-specific view of radiation test service needs for DoD, NASA, ESA, and civil space programs. The emphasis, standards, and test rigor differ by customer, even though the underlying physics is the same.
For DoD, NASA, ESA, and civil programs, our radiation test services are:
- Standards-compliant
- Conservative and traceable
- Integrated with Radiation Hardness Assurance
- Capable of component-, board-, and system-level testing
- Supported by rigorous documentation and review processes
Defense, Civil & Government Space Radiation Test Services
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD / Space Force)
Mission Priorities
- Assured mission success in contested and degraded environments
- Survivability and resilience
- Long life and high confidence
- Compliance with military standards and program directives
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Radiation Test Services Required
- Threat-informed radiation environment modeling
- Natural space radiation + mission-specific threat overlays
- TID testing
- High total dose levels
- ELDRS characterization for bipolar devices
- Worst-case bias and temperature conditions
- SEE testing
- Heavy ion SEE (SEL, SEU, SEFI, SET, SEB, SEGR)
- Proton SEE (especially LEO missions)
- Angle and worst-case LET testing
- High-dose-rate / transient radiation testing
- Prompt dose effects
- Survivability and graceful degradation
- Board and system-level radiation testing
- Fault propagation and recovery validation
- Lot acceptance & delta qualification
- Process change and obsolescence control
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Governing Standards
- MIL-STD-883 / MIL-STD-750
- Mission-specific Space Force or DoD specifications
- Program RHA plans and compliance matrices
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NASA (Civil & Science Missions)
Mission Priorities
- Mission assurance for unique, non-repeatable missions
- Deep space, planetary, and high-radiation environments
- Scientific data integrity
- Long mission durations (often 10–20+ years)
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Radiation Test Services Required
- High-fidelity environment modeling
- Solar particle events, galactic cosmic rays, planetary radiation belts
- Comprehensive TID testing
- End-of-life margin verification
- Dose-rate sensitivity and annealing studies
- SEE testing
- Heavy ion and proton SEE
- Functional upset and data integrity testing
- Displacement damage testing
- Sensors, detectors, imagers, optoelectronics
- Subsystem and system-level testing
- End-to-end performance under radiation
- Autonomous fault detection and recovery validation
- Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA)
- Formal RHA plans, reviews, and audits
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Governing Standards
- NASA EEE-INST-002 / 002B
- NASA-STD-8739 series
- Mission-specific radiation requirements (e.g., JPL, GSFC)
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European Space Agency (ESA)
Mission Priorities
- Standardization and consistency across multinational programs
- Qualification over innovation risk
- Long-term reliability and traceability
- Supplier and part pedigree control
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Radiation Test Services Required
- ECSS-compliant radiation test programs
- TID testing
- Qualification dose levels with required margins
- SEE testing
- Heavy ion and proton SEE per ECSS definitions
- Statistical confidence and reporting rigor
- Displacement damage testing
- Particularly for optics, detectors, and telecom hardware
- Qualification & acceptance testing
- Clear distinction between qual and acceptance flows
- Documentation and traceability
- Full test reports, compliance matrices, and reviews
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Governing Standards
- ECSS-Q-ST-60
- ECSS-Q-ST-30
- ECSS-E-ST-10
- ESA program-specific requirements
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