The use of automotive grade electronic components for New Space missions is receiving wide attention among the New Space industry and its customers. Automotive components are generally low-cost while providing high performance in terms of speed and reconfigurability. However, automotive parts cannot be utilised as such in space missions without properly testing them and making sure they function as intended while not causing harm to other subsystems of the spacecraft, for example by means of outgassing.

To address the functionality of components before and after thermal vacuum, and perhaps allowing to utilise them more widely in the New Space domain, we selected a range of automotive grade components from amplifiers to microcontrollers to be tested in the framework of the Materials4CubeSats Testing Campaign.

The open call for proposals for the Materials4CubeSats Testing Campaign was announced during the Materials4CubeSats Workshop which was held in December 2022. The testing campaign focuses on collaborative testing of COTS and novel materials intended for use on future CubeSat missions. The testing campaign was performed at ESTEC's laboratory facilities, and the test results are to be made available to the European CubeSat community in an on-line database format.

This paper presents the collaboration work between AVS and ESA, and introduces the preliminary results from the thermal vacuum cycling and the characteristics of the different automotive grade components before and after the testing campaign. The paper additionally discusses the possible future usage for the components along with their main features and suitability.