ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a tutorial on designing electronics for spacecraft. The term “spacecraft” includes a wide variety of applications, such as communication satellites, Earth-observing satellites, manned laboratories and space exploration vehicles, robotic observatories, planetary probes, and launch vehicles. As this is a potentially vast topic, we will focus on one very important application: communication satellites. The electronic components and systems within such spacecraft must be designed in accordance with a set of requirements and constraints that are, in total, distinct from those of terrestrial applications, yet should be individually familiar to specific terrestrial electronic design communities.
