1 Scope
This document provides test methods and test requirements for design either qualification
or acceptance, or both of small spacecraft or units. It provides the minimum test requirements and test methods to qualify the design
and manufacturing methods of commercial small spacecraft and their units and to accept the final products.
This document is applicable to satellites whose development methods are different
from the ones used for traditional satellites that have little room for risk tolerance.
The scope of this document encompasses different categories of small spacecraft, so-called
mini-, micro-, nano-, pico- and femto spacecraft.
This document includes CubeSat, as long as it is developed with the untraditional processes.
This document does not cover satellite deployment mechanisms, such as picosatellite orbital deployer (POD), as the verification requirements are defined in the interface control document
(ICD) with the launcher, such as ISO 26869 [ 1 ] .
This document does not cover software testing, although some tests such as functional
test, mission test and end-to-end test are inherently used to test the software installed
in the hardware being tested. General requirements and processes of satellite software
testing can be found in various references, such as ECSS-E-ST40 [ 2 ] .
This document does not cover requirements regarding safety nor ...