Aerospace-specific design guidelines for electrical insulation

Abstract

The authors point out that aerospace electronic and power systems demand increasing levels of safety, efficiency and power delivery because of the severe effects from long term operation in the space environment, often without any manned operation or maintenance. Consequently, the design requirements place more emphasis on the insulation components and their applications, posing new challenges to the electrical insulation design engineer. The space and volume constraints require the high power components to be miniaturized, yet compatible with the thermal and mechanical environments while maintaining cost at a reasonable level. A combination of technical skills, new technologies, experience and extensive data from the older engineers is presented as the way to achieve advancement and realization of the required design specifications for the electrical insulation of aerospace systems. >