ECSS-E-20-01A (REV-1), SPACE ENGINEERING: MULTIPACTION DESIGN AND TEST (01-MAR-2013)

ECSS-E-20-01A (REV-1), SPACE ENGINEERING: MULTIPACTION DESIGN AND TEST (01-MAR-2013)., Single carrier multipaction has well-established theoretical and testing procedures, and the heritage from proven components enables to define testing margin values as requirements for European space missions. Applying the single carrier margin to peak in-phase multi-carrier signals is recognized as excessively onerous in many cases, but the present understanding of multipaction for multicarrier signals is not well enough established for a reduced limit to be specified. For this reason, the margins for the multi-carrier case are stated as recommendations, with a view to their evolving to requirements in the longer term.