Engineers at FXO Inc. are available to support your design, analysis or test phase of your projects. Every engineer at FXO Inc. has taken a project from specification to design and analysis, test development and test. Most have experience with integrating their designs onto a spacecraft. Every engineer is well versed in the best practices in design as well as the handling of electrostatic sensitive devices.
Examples of recent consulting projects:
2023
– Troubleshoot and repair custom VME boards for an aerospace company. These boards are used in a spacecraft simulator. The console was designed and built in the late 1990’s. I was able to program PALs for the boards using my Data I/O programmers. Also doing a lot of debugging of 30 year old test equipment. Many power supplies have failed in these HP and Agilent analyzers. I got an Agilent logic analyzer working for <$1000!
2023
Perform FMECA analysis on avionics electronics designs for a spacecraft manufacturer.
2019
Test, troubleshoot and repair non-flight version of spacecraft computers that are used in spacecraft simulators around the country.
Previous projects
– Converted HP BASIC software to TransEra’s HT BASIC. Replaced HP-85 with ACME Portable Computer.
– Performed unverified failure analysis on a flight computer that failed in ground test
– Tested a flight box level component on the Instrumentation Engineering Inc. MATS test station. In addition, we wrote some of the ATLAS Test Software
– Prepared FMEA on Stores Management Unit for Hawk Fighter
– Prepared Fault Tree on Stores Management Unit for Hawk Fighter
– Designed Spacecraft harness for TIROS weather satellite
– Trained engineers in the programming of MATS test equipment
– Wrote test software for automated test equipment
– Troubleshooting of Mil-Std-1750A computer used on a satellite
– Troubleshooting rack of equipment used for a spacecraft closed loop simulation
– Motorola 68020 microprocessor code development
– Wrote assembly language software to test a flight computer
– Wrote ATLAS Test programs to test the NOAA N satellite
– Created C program to renumber ATLAS code
– Troubleshoot test setup and ATLAS test software for Relay box
– Performed Extreme Value Analysis (WCA) on Harpoon Weapons System computer
– Performed Root Sum Squared Analysis (WCA) on a spaceborne microcontroller board in the gyroscope electronics
– Provided the Reliability Analysis for the doors and slides mechanisms to be used on the Airbus Industries A380 proposal
– Provided the Reliability Analysis for the Landing Gear Extension and Retraction System (LGERS), that is used on the Airbus Industries A380 aircraft landing gear.
– Performed Single Events and Effects Analysis (SEEA) for the next Mars Rover mission, Mars Science Laboratory.
– Prepared Reliability Block Diagram, FMEA and Fault Tree using Relex Software on the Airbus A380 Landing Gear Extension and Retraction Systems
– Will Program Space Qualified PROMs for space application. To Conduct Burn-In Test and post program verification tests.