Characterization History
Build a structured record of how a component family performs across multiple campaigns and manufacturing periods.
Independent characterization for commercially relevant component families.
Orbital Veritas works with semiconductor manufacturers to generate independent radiation evidence for commercial, industrial, and automotive-grade semiconductor technologies relevant to New Space applications.
Manufacturers contribute component expertise, traceability information, and approved test boards. Orbital Veritas provides methodology, campaign governance, evidence publication, and longitudinal characterization across multiple campaigns and date codes.
The result is a growing body of independent evidence that helps the New Space ecosystem understand how component families behave in radiation environments over time.
Commercial semiconductor technologies need characterization.
Many commercial, industrial, and automotive-grade semiconductor technologies offer attractive combinations of performance, availability, innovation, and manufacturing scale. However, publicly available radiation characterization is often limited, fragmented, or unavailable. As a result, potentially relevant technologies may never be seriously evaluated by the New Space ecosystem because the effort required to generate evidence is too high for any single organization.
Orbital Veritas provides a structured framework for generating, organizing, and expanding radiation evidence around commercially relevant component families. The objective is not qualification. The objective is characterization. By combining approved test boards, independent radiation campaigns, evidence publication, and recurring date-code expansion, Orbital Veritas helps create a growing body of knowledge that benefits manufacturers, engineering teams, and the wider New Space ecosystem.
Date-Code Expansion
Expand evidence beyond a single campaign through recurring characterization of additional date codes and revisions.
Approved Test Boards
Create repeatable characterization platforms that support consistent evidence generation over time.
Evidence Packages
Transform campaign results into structured, reusable characterization records linked to approved boards and campaign history.
Longitudinal Evidence
Build understanding through repeated campaigns rather than isolated test events.
Independent Governance
Ensure evidence remains transparent, traceable, and independent of commercial influence.
Participate in structured characterization programmes.
Orbital Veritas provides several pathways for semiconductor manufacturers to participate in independent radiation characterization of commercially relevant component families. Programmes are designed to create reusable evidence that can expand through future campaigns, additional date codes, and longitudinal characterization activities.
The objective is not product endorsement. The objective is evidence generation. Each programme follows a structured framework for board development, campaign governance, evidence publication, and characterization history.
Component Family Programme
A single component family enters the Orbital Veritas characterization framework. Typical programmes may include CAN transceivers, LDO regulators, DC/DC converters, ADCs, memories, and timing devices. The programme creates approved test boards, radiation campaigns, evidence packages, and future characterization history.
Technology Category Programme
Multiple component families are characterized within a common technology category, such as interface components, power components, analog components, or timing components. This approach creates broader evidence coverage while leveraging common campaign infrastructure.
Board Development Programme
Manufacturers develop characterization boards using their application expertise. Orbital Veritas reviews and approves the boards according to a documented methodology before campaign participation, allowing approved boards to support multiple future campaigns.
Date-Code Expansion Programme
Existing component-family programmes are extended through additional characterization of future date codes, manufacturing periods, and revisions. This helps expand understanding of long-term component-family behaviour.
Longitudinal Characterization Programme
Selected technologies remain active across multiple campaigns and years. These programmes build historical evidence around consistency, variation, process evolution, evidence maturity, and confidence growth through recurring characterization activities.
Evidence Publication Programme
Campaign results are converted into structured evidence packages that connect component-family records, approved boards, tested date codes, campaign history, and known limitations. This makes characterization evidence easier to review, trace, and reuse across the New Space ecosystem.
Why manufacturers participate
Manufacturers participate because independent characterization is expensive, fragmented, and difficult to build alone. Orbital Veritas provides approved methodologies, board approval, campaign governance, evidence publication, characterization history, and longitudinal evidence development.
The resulting evidence benefits manufacturers, engineering teams, and the wider New Space ecosystem.
Independent characterization creates long-term value.
Orbital Veritas helps semiconductor manufacturers build structured characterization history around commercially relevant component families through approved test boards, radiation campaigns, evidence publication, and recurring date-code expansion. The value is not created by a single campaign. The value is created by the accumulation of evidence over time.
As characterization history grows, engineering teams gain greater visibility into how component families behave across multiple campaigns, manufacturing periods, and date codes. Manufacturers contribute expertise and technical knowledge, while Orbital Veritas provides methodology, board approval, campaign governance, evidence publication, and long-term characterization management. The result is a growing body of independent evidence that benefits both manufacturers and the wider New Space ecosystem.
From component family programme to longitudinal evidence.
Orbital Veritas follows a structured framework for generating, expanding, and maintaining radiation evidence around commercially relevant semiconductor technologies.
The process is designed to create reusable characterization history that grows through additional campaigns, approved test boards, and future date-code expansion.
Nominate
A semiconductor manufacturer nominates a component family for participation in an Orbital Veritas characterization programme. Typical examples may include CAN transceivers, DC/DC converters, LDO regulators, ADCs, memories, timing devices, and industrial sensors.
Develop
The manufacturer develops a characterization board using application expertise, operating knowledge, and documented design practices. The board provides a repeatable platform for future evidence generation.
Approve
Orbital Veritas reviews the board against a standardized characterization methodology focused on traceability, repeatability, measurement quality, and documentation completeness. Board approval does not imply component approval.
Characterize
Approved boards enter structured radiation campaigns. Campaigns generate characterization data under defined conditions and create the first layer of evidence for the component family.
Publish
Campaign results are transformed into structured evidence packages and added to the Component Evidence Database. Evidence records become linked to approved boards, campaign history, tested date codes, and characterization records.
Expand
Additional campaigns characterize new manufacturing periods, process revisions, and date codes. The evidence base grows through recurring characterization activities.
Build Longitudinal Evidence
Over time, multiple campaigns and multiple date codes create a growing body of characterization history. This provides visibility into consistency, variation, process evolution, evidence maturity, and confidence growth across the component family.
Maintain Evidence
Characterization records remain active as new campaigns, date codes, manufacturing revisions, and process changes emerge. Orbital Veritas keeps the evidence trail connected so the component-family record can continue to support future engineering review.