Battery Safety Qualifications for Human Ratings

A certification process for batteries is described for NASA space vehicles and U.S. Navy requirements for systems that support human-rated systems or manned support platforms. Due to the nature of the catastrophic hazards induced by bad cell and/or battery designs, it is imperative to design stringent controls to prevent such hazards from resulting in a loss of crew, platform or mission. Testing using the relevant design configuration and environment is crucial to obtaining a safe battery for use in a human-rated environment.