Experimental Capabilities

EDA’s core experience and capabilities lie in the intersections of space technology, plasmas, and the electrodynamic interactions between plasmas and spacecraft.

Expertise

EDA’s staff has over 90 years of combined experience, with diverse backgrounds spanning:

  • Plasma propulsion
  • RF plasmas
  • Atmospheric plasmas
  • Communications
  • Metallurgy
  • Plasma chemistry
  • Magnetic & electric field modeling
  • Laser induced fluorescence
  • Contamination analysis
  • Wet and dry electrospraying
Expertise

Diagnostic Overview

  • Typical plasma probes
    • Faraday
    • Langmuir
    • Retarding Potential Analyzer
    • Emissive
  • Residual Gas Analysis (RGA)
  • High performance network analyzers
  • Interferometric infrastructure
  • Resonance probe
  • Optical emission spectrometer
  • Electron microscope operator on staff
  • Cavity ring-down spectroscopy
Diagnostic Overview
scan of a plasma chemistry process

Testing Services

  • Vacuum, space, and other high-altitude testing
  • automation of experiments, data collection and analysis, test and measurement equipment
  • Particle and plasma simulation and modeling
  • MEMS development and microscopic analysis
  • Thermovac Testing – testing of equipment over a wide range of temperatures
  • Flight pre-qualification and lifetime testing of spacecraft components
  • Assistance in flight qualification programs
Channel noise mitigation concept

Modeling Services

EDA utilizes solid modeling software with integrated FEA to do virtual testing and analysis of parts and assemblies. By simulating a variety of fixtures, loads, contacts, and materials, we can predict stresses, displacements, velocities, accelerations, reaction forces, and temperatures before building a prototype.

Thermal Analysis
  • 3-D magnetic field
  • 3-D electric field
  • Space charge
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Fatigue
  • Harmonic vibration
  • Random vibration
  • Thermal
  • Nonlinear materials
  • Pressure vessels
Vibration Analysis
Displacement Analysis