Trek Product Launched with Satellite Into Orbit
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MEDINA, N.Y. - TREK, INC., a designer and manufacturer of high-voltage amplifiers and electrostatic voltmeters, has one of its products onboard a satellite recently launched in Japan.
TREK JAPAN KK, an affiliate of TREK, INC., has been working with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) to find ways to protect orbiting satellites from damage.
A major contributor to satellite damage is electrostatic discharge (ESD), which many of us experience when touching a light switch after shuffling our feet across a synthetic carpet. This kind of discharge occurs between conducting (metal) and non-conducting (non-metal) materials on a satellite.
Professor Cho at KIT has developed an electron-emitting film (ELF) to help mitigate electric charging (and therefore electrostatic discharge) on satellites. Trek's product, a special electrostatic voltmeter designed for this space project, will measure the surface voltage on the satellite to validate and confirm that the ELF is effective in reducing discharge events.
If the results from this program are encouraging, additional opportunities for research, collaboration and commercial application will be explored.
Satellite manufacturers are very interested in ways to reduce damage to their satellites given the significant expense involved in manufacturing, launching and maintaining satellites.
For more information please email sales@trekinc.com. Helpful websites with satellite program information include:
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency: http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f21/overview/payload_e.html
HORYU-2 / Kyushu Institute of Technology: http://kitsat.ele.kyutech.ac.jp/index_e_new.html
TREK, INC. (est. 1968) is a privately held company that designs, manufactures and sells high performance electrostatic measurement instruments, sensors & monitors, and high voltage amplifiers, power supplies & generators. Trek's standard and custom products are used by OEMs involved in semiconductor manufacturing and electrophotography; in applications sensitive to electrostatic discharge (ESD); and by companies and universities involved in a wide variety of commercial and research applications. Customers include numerous Fortune 500 companies and leading universities. For more information call 585-798-3140 or go to www.trekinc.com.
CONTACT: Brian Carmer, +1-585-798-3140 ext 285, brian.carmer@trekinc.com
TREK, INC. 11601 Maple Ridge Road, Medina, NY 14103 USA sales@trekinc.com www.trekinc.com
