Ruggedized Dewar design and construction for rocket launch survival

Designing custom hardware for space payloads often imposes many constraints in terms of non-recurring design effort and material lead times. Transitioning the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware for increased-severity environmental service can prove a desirable alternative when mission requirements have some flexibility in terms of weight and envelope. Surviving the extreme vibration conditions present during a rocket launch is one of the most difficult challenges for the use of COTS-based solutions. IRCameras has provided a pathway means of ruggedizing common weak links within Integrated Dewar Cooler Assembly (IDCA) to support CubeSat space launch missions.