An examination of how mass is used in spacecraft design indicates that technology efforts directed only to reduce the mass of electronics, both digital and analog will not significantly reduce the mass of a spacecraft, regardless of how much success those efforts achieve.


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    Title :

    An overview of NASA's activities in micro-nano technologies


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Space 2000 Conference and Exposition


    Publication date :

    2000-09-19


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English