Panasonic to test its electronics engineering materials in space

Due to significant growth in aerospace electronics market, there is a demand for such electronic components to fulfil high reliability requirements of radiation prone aero-space. Aiming this growing market, the leading electronic industry material manufacturer Panasonic announces it will conduct space exposure experiments of its electronic circuit board materials and Underfill for board level reinforcement . Experiments include exposure to microgravity, cosmic radiation, high vacuum, and other conditions unique to space environments. It is difficult to reproduce all of these environments simultaneously on Earth. The materials will be launched into outer space within FY2022 (by the end of March 2023) on the Exposed Facility of the Japanese Experiment Module Kibo onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and remain there for about six months. Panasonics said these experiments to expose it's products to space to assess the impact on them and utilize the data obtained for future product development. Example of such products quoted by Panasonic include MEGTRON series multi-layer circuit board materials and LEXCM series semiconductor device materials, which are widely used in the field of communication infrastructure. This project allows experiments in space (an environment where microgravity, high vacuum, cosmic radiation, and wide-ranging temperature changes occur ...