AIAA S-142-2016

AIAA S-142-2016 is intended to serve as a standard and handbook for the prevention of multipactor breakdown in spacecraft components and systems. The document provides minimum requirements for risk definition, system analysis, and component analysis and test. Supporting documentation describes proper design, analysis, and test guidelines while also providing the requirements for defining the proper system engineering to identify RF breakdown risks within susceptible components. The document framework is based on defining worst-case parameters as general inputs to analysis or test criteria for all components within the RF system. Using hardware-specific values, these worst-case parameters are defined separately from margin requirements.