Innovative
Radiation Solutions
Services
Testing Services
Mission Assurance
Hardware Design
Your Partner in Radiation Solutions
Testing Services
Our team executes efficient test campaigns using our proprietary methodology and approach. We provide comprehensive testing services that evaluate radiation impacts on various systems, ensuring safety and functionality in space environments.
Single Event Effects
The Rad Team performs heavy ion, proton, and neutron SEE testing to identify, characterize, and mitigate radiation induced upsets, latch-up, and burnout in your mission-critical electronics.
Total Dose Testing
Our Team delivers precision gamma, electron, proton, and neutron testing to replicate cumulative radiation exposure, including total ionizing dose and displacement damage effects, and verify your hardware’s long term reliability in the intended environment.
Prompt Dose Testing
Through supported and turnkey efforts, we perform dose rate upset testing using flash X-ray and short pulse gamma sources to verify systems can tolerate intense, short duration radiation events and maintain critical functionality.
Test Plans Development
We predict on-orbit event rates based on mission specific radiation environments and device response data, quantifying expected SEE frequencies and cumulative effects over time. This provides a clear, mission-aligned understanding of operational risk and system reliability.
On-Orbit Rate Prediction
We predict on-orbit event rates based on mission specific radiation environments and device response data, quantifying expected SEE frequencies and cumulative effects over time. This provides a clear, mission aligned understanding of operational risk and system reliability.
Qualification
Services
We support qualification of electronics for radiation environments through tailored test programs, requirements traceability, and data driven verification. This ensures hardware meets mission specific requirements with defensible compliance and reduced technical risk.
Facilities & Source Types
Our vast network of facility partnerships allow us to secure beam time quickly and frequently. We use US and non-US based sources including Heavy ion, proton, electron, neutron, CO-60 (gamma), X-Ray, Flash X-Ray, Short Pulse Gamma
More Than Just
Test Experts
The Rad Team will work within your schedule and budget to identify the necessary and sufficient solution to move your program forward. We provide value at any stage of development, from TRL 1 through TRL 9 by combining deep technical expertise with a commitment to efficiency and precision. Our tailored testing and analysis services ensure you get actionable results, reducing risk, saving time, and maximizing mission success.
Mission Assurance
The Rad Team is your mission assurance industry leader. We optimize solutions for your application, paving the way for you to launch with confidence, while saving you time and money. We can work with your in-house radiation experts or provide full service support.
Gaps, Issues, & Risks
We focus on every state of your program's radiation and electronics readiness. The Rad Team can identify missing data, known technical concerns, and potential mission impacts. We work with your team to mitigate and resolve all radiation reliability concerns.
Requirements Verification
Radiation requirements can quickly grow in complexity, increasing cost, schedule, and testing burden. The Rad Team ensures requirements are sound, properly scoped, and aligned with the mission environment, and develops targeted test plans for efficient, defensible compliance.
Environmental Analysis
The Rad Team assesses the space radiation environment for your technology and mission profile, incorporating orbit, altitude, mission duration, and shielding to quantify exposure. This provides a mission aligned understanding of the radiation conditions driving design and risk.
Shielding Optimization
We performs detailed shielding analysis and optimization tailored to the mission radiation environment, ensuring protection is applied where most effective and avoided where unnecessary. This approach minimizes mass while achieving required radiation tolerance for mission success.
ESD & Spacecraft Charging
Electrostatic discharges (ESD) and Spacecraft Charging are interconnected phenomena that can significantly impact spacecraft performance and safety. Our team leverages experts in this arena to ensure safety and prevention of operational failures in modern spacecraft.
All Level Evaluations
Space systems can be affected by radiation at every level. The Rad Team provides assembly and system evaluations along with architecture assessments. We support your system to ensure confidence throughout your mission.
Hardware Design
The Rad Team are experts in board layout and component selection. We approach your system from the ground up with radiation mitigation at the forefront of our design strategies as well as produce radiation tolerant products ready for implementation.
EEE BoM
Analysis
We provide a current status of your electronics designs with regards to radiation data by reviewing all publicly available data as well as The Rad Teams internal database to provide a disposition of radiation reliability for each individual IC.
Electronics Design
We design high-performance electronics for radiation environments, addressing single event effects and cumulative dose to ensure reliable operation. The result is mission-aligned hardware that meets performance requirements while maintaining reliability in the intended environment.
Rad Tolerant Products
We provide off the shelf radiation tolerant hardware, including modules and compute systems, built for reliable operation in space environments. These products deliver mission aligned performance with validated radiation tolerance, reducing development time, cost, and technical risk.
Common Questions
Radiation testing involves measuring how materials and electronics respond to various radiation types and levels. We simulate conditions found in space to ensure your systems can withstand them. Our process uses both innovative techniques and industry standards to deliver precise results.
Our team possesses a wealth of experience, with certifications in radiation safety and testing procedures. We are committed to maintaining high standards and staying updated with the latest developments in space technology.
Our services are ideal for businesses and organizations working on space applications, including universities, government agencies, and private aerospace firms. If you’re exploring advancements in space technology, we are here to assist you.
The duration of testing varies based on the specific requirements and complexity of the project. Generally, we provide a timeline during the initial consultation to ensure you know what to expect.
Contact us directly! We are dedicated to providing detailed answers and support to empower your next steps in space exploration.
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Necessary and Sufficient Engineering
Our Philosophy of
Engineering Services
Executing properly means you hit your budget, schedule, and design
Don’t under-test, don’t over-test, test with the future in mind.
Find a way to properly leverage the correct requirements and maximize the value of radiation data.
You cannot buy components to perfectly solve radiation problems:
The cost of “rad-tolerant” devices can be 100x-1000x per device! This will break your budget.
Long lead times on part procurement and rad qualification will break your schedule.
Using commercial components (or even “rad-hard”) without quality radiation work will break your design.
Focus on your core strengths, the areas that truly differentiate your business. Delegate non-core tasks and functions to external experts who specialize in those areas.