Use Industry-Standard Design for Manufacturability & Assembly Techniques, Applied to Satellites

• Adopt universal fasteners, mounting, connectors, etc.
• Minimize assembly steps
• Reduce manufacturing techniques used
• Use pre-manufactured and commercial off-the-shelf components.

Modularize design and manufacturing

• Individually separable modules
• Assemble and test each module separately
• Standard connections between modules enable reconfigurability and rapid assembly/disassembly

Modular/Panel Design

• Simplifies platform implementation
• Assembly of and quality control on each module prior to assembly

Minimize tooling

• Adopt universal fasteners, connectors, etc.
• Universal mounting, testing and assembly interfaces

Pre-mounted electrical harness on each module for plug-and-play assembly and disassembly