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Just as spacecraft design teams are increasingly approaching the design and construction of a spacecraft as an integrated system, the overall environment and survivability of the spacecraft should be approached in a similar fashion. Typically perceived as either too expensive or design limiting, design for environmental survivability, whether it be from thermal, radiation, atomic oxygen, or spacecraft charging effects, is usually done strictly on an ad hoc basis. Unfortunately, ‘faster, better, cheaper’ (FBC) missions seldom consider anything much beyond thermal effects and, independently, radiation effects on selected parts.
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The research and work that supported this chapter were carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Garrett, H.B. (2014). Space Environments and Survivability. In: Macdonald, M., Badescu, V. (eds) The International Handbook of Space Technology. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41101-4_3
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