NASA-HDBK-4001, NASA TECHNICAL HANDBOOK: ELECTRICAL GROUNDING ARCHITECTURE FOR UNMANNED SPACECRAFT (17 FEB 1998)

NASA-HDBK-4001, NASA TECHNICAL HANDBOOK: ELECTRICAL GROUNDING ARCHITECTURE FOR UNMANNED SPACECRAFT (17 FEB 1998)., This handbook is approved for use by NASA Headquarters and all NASA Centers and is intended to provide a common framework for consistent practices across NASA programs. This handbook was developed to describe electrical grounding design architecture options for unmanned spacecraft. This handbook is written for spacecraft system engineers, power engineers, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) engineers. Spacecraft grounding architecture is a system-level decision which must be established at the earliest point in spacecraft design. All other grounding design must be coordinated with and be consistent with the system-level architecture. This handbook assumes that there is no one single "correct" design for spacecraft grounding architecture. There have been many successful satellite and spacecraft programs from NASA, using a variety of grounding architectures with different levels of complexity. However, some design principles learned over the years apply to all types of spacecraft development. This handbook summarizes those principles to help guide spacecraft grounding architecture design for NASA and others. Requests for information, corrections, or additions to this handbook should be directed to the Reliability Engineering Office, Mail Code 301-456, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109. Requests for additional copies of this handbook should be sent to NASA Engineering Standards, EL01, MSFC, AL 35812 (telephone 205-544-2448).