The Multipurpose Drive Electronics (MDE) is designed to drive up to four stepper motors used in the satellites' on-board applications.
POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
• Antenna Pointing Mechanisms
• Deployable Sunshield Assembly Structure
• Solar Array Drive Electronics
• Propulsion Pointing Drivers
• Instrument Pointing Devices
• Pointing or Scanning Systems
• Mechanism manipulator
KEY FEATURES
• Four motor driver outputs (4xN/4xR)
• Fully redundant design
• Redundant communication interfaces
• Full stepping
• Voltage mode outputs
• Over-current protection on each output
• Flexible configuration via NVM
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