The objective of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission is to make global measurements of sea surface and terrestrial water heights. The SWOT Observatory consists of the Spacecraft Bus, supplied by CNES, and the Payload Module, provided by JPL. The Spacecraft Bus is a carrier of the Payload Module, which includes all the science instruments. The Spacecraft Bus components have been environmentally verified by CNES and the Payload Module components verified by JPL. The Payload Module was delivered to CNES in June 2021 for integration with the Spacecraft Bus to form the Observatory, which is in the process of undergoing a full set of environmental tests before launch. This paper focuses on the environmental test and analysis program at the assembly (unit), subsystem, and module level for the Payload Module hardware that JPL is responsible for verifying. Even though an Earth-orbiting mission like SWOT is not considered to be at extreme environments, SWOT’s environmental verification program does illustrate the standard System Integration and Test (SIT) process for hardware integration and environmental testing to ensure all hardware have been properly qualified to meet all mission environments. Typical space environmental test and analysis campaign includes acoustics vibration, shock, thermal vacuum, venting/pressure, radiation, electrostatic discharge, EMC/EMI/magnetics, and meteoroids. Environmental test and analysis metrics are presented in this paper. This paper also shows the complex integration process that involves multi-organizations and the latest status on the Observatory environmental test campaign.


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    Title :

    The SWOT Mission Environmental Verification Program


    Contributors:
    Man, Kin F. (author)

    Publication date :

    2022-04-25


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English



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