1 Scope
The intended users of the “Mechanical shock design and verification handbook”
are engineers involved in design, analysis and verification in relation to
shock environment in spacecraft. The current know-how relevant
to mechanical shock design and verification is documented in this handbook in
order to make this expertise available to all European spacecraft and payload
developers.
The handbook provides adequate guidelines for shock design and verification;
therefore it includes advisory information, recommendations and good practices,
rather than requirements.
The handbook covers the shock in its globally, from the derivation of shock input to
equipment and sub-systems inside a satellite structure, until its verification to
ensure a successful qualification, and including its consequences on equipment and
sub-systems. However the following aspects are not treated herein:
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• No internal launcher shock is treated in the frame
of this handbook even if some aspects are common to those presented
hereafter. They are just considered as a shock source (after propagation
in the launcher structure) at launcher/spacecraft interface.
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Shocks due to fall of structure or equipment are not
taken into account as they are not in the frame of normal development of a
spacecraft.