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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

• Optics Design
• FPGA Design
  
• Ground Support Equipment Design