Suborbital Flight Environment Monitor (SFEM) Testing

The Suborbital Flight Environment Monitor (SFEM) is a compact, self-contained payload that will monitor and record on-board environmental parameters of interest to investigators during a sRLV flight. All presently conceivable FOP sRLV scientific experiments will require knowledge of the actual flight environment as a function of time during the flight. The compact 2.2 kg package comprised of commercially available instruments is designed to measure and record stand-alone shock, vibration, temperature, pressure and relative humidity measurement. The information gathered on early FOP sRLV flights to characterize the payload environment will help to guide payload builds and determine the microgravity quality for future investigators.

The on-board environmental parameters gathered by this technology on various flight vehicles will be used to characterize the payload environment of that vehicle. This information will determine microgravity quality, help guide payload development and will benefit the commercial space industry and future NASA missions.

This is a mature technology (TRL 9) — the realistic path in is usually NASA's Technology Transfer Program: licensing an existing NASA patent, or a Space Act Agreement to use NASA facilities/expertise directly. NASA also runs a startup licensing program with no upfront fee for companies formed to commercialize a specific NASA technology.

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