Crane Powers Mars InSight's Historic Mission with Interpoint® DC-DC Converters
Crane Powers Mars InSight's Historic Mission with Interpoint® DC-DC Converters
Crane Aerospace & Electronics is proud of its lengthy history of providing modular power to spacecrafts embarking on critical missions. Crane supplied DC-DC converters and EMI filters to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Mars Phoenix and the Mars Curiosity Rover, all in the last 15 years.
That rich tradition has continued with NASA’s recent Mars InSight Mission, which launched May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central coast.
Our space products are certified to stand up to the intense shock and vibration of launch and landing as well as the temperature extremes and vacuum of outer space.
Six months after launch and more than 300-million miles later, the InSight shuttle arrived at the Red Planet to begin a groundbreaking mission.
Previous missions to Mars investigated the planet’s surface history by examining landscape features such as canyons, volcanoes, rocks and soil. Never before, though, has Mars’ interior structure been studied.
InSight is the first outer space robotic explorer to study in-depth Mars’ crust, mantle and core. By doing so, scientists hope to answer questions about the early formation of planets in our inner solar system – Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. InSight is also determining Mars’ level of tectonic activity.
Crane A&E is providing power regulations and filtering for several of InSight’s flight and payload systems such as the lander’s robotic arm and camera that has sent back images.
“Our space products are certified to stand up to the intense shock and vibration of launch and landing as well as the temperature extremes and vacuum of outer space,” said Bob Myers, Crane A&E Solution Leader – Modular Power. “We have a long history of supporting space missions across the world, and our products have a lineage of performance, quality and reliability.
“At modular power we’re honored to be a part of such an amazing achievement in history and to be able to partner with NASA, JPL and others around the world that are leading the exploration of space and proud they depend on Crane products to help them get there.”
The Mars InSight lander is schedule to continue its data collection until November 2020.