Steve, as a soldering instructor/Quality Eng., I will throw in that you need
to look at the NASA-STD-7839.3 for soldering and check out the NASA
certification requirements for your instructor.  That instructor will have
to train and certify your folks.
You may already have an IPC certified instructor but you may be required to
use NASA training sites for NASA certifications. Just need to know what the
contract will state and not assume what may or may not be there.  Good luck
and hope you can do it.  Jon

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Stephen R. Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, July 19, 2000 9:21 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        [TN] Space Electronics...

Hi ya'll!

Here where I work, we do a lot of hi-rel, military stuff. But we've recently
got a bid package of twenty or so assemblies that go into satellites. We sat
down and had a meeting about this business of whether or not we should
pursue
it...

I voiced my concerns in that I don't think anybody really has a clue of what
kind of massive undertaking this will be given the way that we do things
now.
"But Steve, we build hi-reliabilty assemblies now..." and my reply has been;
"But you ain't seen nothing yet!, the process requirements that must
followed
to the letter, and the documentation trail that will go along with each and
every board is going to be massive..."

I don't have any first-hand experience building space hardware, but what
little I've learned or heard about it, made such an impression on me that I
know that it's not something that I would want to get into...

Those of you that are into this stuff; am I over-reacting or what? Can your
average contract assembly company (that does have experience with military
electronics) jump into this? Some are poo-poo'ing me saying I'm sweating
things too much...I don't think I am.

-Steve Gregory-

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