Stentor Satellite
Equipment mounted in satellites must withstand acoustic-driven random vibration at liftoff and during the transonic and maximum dynamic pressure phases of flight. The equipment must be designed and test accordingly.
The equipment is mounted on shaker tables for the random vibration testing, but this can be overly conservative with respect to the actual vibroacoustic environment.
Here is an interesting case study paper:
Comparison of Satellite Equipment Responses Induced by Acoustic and Random Vibration Tests, Bertrand Brevart, Alice Pradines, 2002. Comparison_Satellite_2002.pdf
Force-limiting is one method for mitigating this overtest problem. See NASA-HDBK-7004
More later…
– Tom Irvine