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In the aerospace world, a "flat sat" (https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Opened-out_FlatSat_for_CubeSat_testing) is a development mockup of satellite splayed out on a bench with all the boards easily accessible for testing.
Is there a similar term of art for a spread-out functional prototype that's not a spacecraft? I feel like it should have a name but I'm not aware of one.
www.esa.intOpened-out ‘FlatSat’ for CubeSat testingESA’s latest CubeSat mission is destined to never leave the ground. Instead it is doing its duty as an opened-out ‘FlatSat’ – with its interlinked subsystems spread out across a table at the Agency’s Data Systems and Microelectronics Laboratory at its ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands.
@azonenberg maybe "testbed", "testbench" or "breadboard", although none of these terms necessarily imply all the hardware being laid out flatsat style.
@destevez Yeah I'm about to build a flatsat of my Ethernet switch and trying to figure out what to call it lol.