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ROUTES ASTROEngineering specializes in taking complex requirements and creating technically advanced, high performance science instruments and spacecraft subsystems.  We provide a flexible, responsive management style to projects and to our customers.  Our core competencies are:

Concept Development

  • Mission / Systems / Operations Studies
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Trade-off Studies
  • Risk Studies
  • Advanced Technology Studies
  • Resource Budgeting

Detailed Design

  • Orbital Imagers using either CCD, active pixel sensors or InGaAs linear arrays
  • Low-noise readout electronics for imagers
  • High Definition Video
  • Embedded and Real-time Control Processing
  • Spacecraft Power Electronics
  • Electrical power and data transfers through rotating interfaces
  • Solar Array Power Predictions and Design
  • Complex packaging design, including mechanisms
  • Robust mechanical designs for space applications

Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration and Testing (MAIT)

  • NASA Certified PCB Assembly
  • Small Scale Space Manufacturing
  • Thermal Vacuum Testing
  • Vibration Testing (including Force Limited Vibration Testing)
  • Imager and Instrument Calibration
  • Space Payload Integration

ROUTES ASTROEngineering also possesses the technical skills to perform:
  • Optics Design
  • FPGA Design
  • Ground Support Equipment Design