The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) program office has taken the initiative of developing a solderable and stackable connector as a drop-in replacement of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) heritage AirBorn press-fit connector design, in response to NASA EEE-INST-002 Addendum (released in May 2008) prohibiting the usage of the compliant or `press fit' terminations, as well as the flat bifurcated `tuning fork' contact designs. JHU/APL subcontracted Hypertronics to design and manufacture the custom connector. The manufacturing process development and a comprehensive qualification testing were conducted at JHU/APL.


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    Title :

    Development and Qualification of the Hypertronics Stackable Connector for RBSP mission


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    Publication date :

    2011-03-01


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    4364265 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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