The Radiation Team LLC

Radiation testing across a broad network of facility partnerships, securing beam time quickly and frequently to maintain schedule and program agility.

• Heavy Ion Testing

  Characterizes potential susceptibility to single event effects by exposing hardware to high-energy ions representative of the space environment, defining thresholds, cross sections, and failure modes needed to assess risk and guide mitigation.

• Proton Testing

  Captures the combined effects of SEE, displacement damage, and total ionizing dose under representative proton environments, providing a realistic view of performance degradation and failure behavior to inform risk, design margins, and mitigation strategies.

• Neutron Testing

  Evaluates susceptibility to SEE induced by atmospheric and terrestrial neutron environments, particularly for ground and avionics applications, characterizing upset rates and failure behavior to support risk assessment and mitigation.

• Single Event Effects
• Total Dose Testing
• Test Plan Management

  Manages radiation test plans from definition through execution, ensuring objectives, conditions, and success criteria are clearly defined and aligned with mission requirements to improve test efficiency, data quality, and confidence in results.

• Qualification Services

  Supports qualification of electronics for radiation environments through tailored test programs, requirements traceability, and data-driven verification, ensuring hardware meets mission-specific requirements with defensible compliance and reduced technical risk.

Multi-disciplined engineering assessment from the IC level to the full spacecraft vehicle, following a structured radiation analysis flow from environment definition through system-level performance prediction.

• On-Orbit Rate Prediction

  Predicts on-orbit event rates based on mission-specific radiation environments and device response data, quantifying expected SEE frequencies and cumulative effects over time to provide a clear, mission-aligned understanding of operational risk and system reliability.

• Environmental Analysis

  Assesses the space radiation environment for a given technology and mission scenario, incorporating orbit, altitude, mission duration, and shielding to quantify exposure and establish the radiation conditions driving design and risk.

• ESD and Spacecraft Charging

  Addresses electrostatic discharge and spacecraft charging phenomena that can impact spacecraft performance and safety, leveraging domain experts to ensure prevention of operational failures in modern spacecraft.

• Gaps, Issues, and Risks

  Identifies missing data, known technical concerns, and potential mission impacts across a program's radiation and electronics readiness, working with client teams to mitigate and resolve all radiation reliability concerns.

• Requirements Verification

  Ensures radiation requirements are sound, properly scoped, and aligned with the mission environment, developing targeted test plans for efficient, defensible compliance while controlling cost and schedule burden.

• Trade Studies

  Evaluates design options such as redundancy, shielding, and mission trajectories in the context of radiation risk, enabling informed decisions that balance performance, mass, cost, and reliability.

Approaches avionics systems from the ground up with radiation mitigation at the forefront of design strategies, applying specialized expertise to integrate radiation hardening throughout the design process.

Provides support through key program milestones including PDR and CDR by interpreting and applying NASA and customer requirements within a radiation context, ensuring designs, analyses, and test approaches are aligned for successful review and compliance.