NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the European Space Agency (ESA) conducted a disturbance verification test on a flight Solar Array 3 (SA3) for the Hubble Space Telescope using the ESA Large Space Simulator (LSS) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The LSS cyclically illuminated the SA3 to simulate orbital temperature changes in a vacuum environment. Data acquisition systems measured signals from force transducers and accelerometers resulting from thermally induced vibrations of the SAI The LSS with its seismic mass boundary provided an excellent background environment for this test. This paper discusses the analysis performed on the measured transient SA3 responses and provides a summary of the results.
Thermally Induced Vibrations of the Hubble Space Telescope's Solar Array 3 in a Test Simulated Space Environment
2001
8 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Astronomy & Celestial Mechanics , Unmanned Spacecraft , Manned Spacecraft , Aerospace environments , Data acquisition , Solar arrays , Vibration , Performance tests , Accelerometers , Boundaries , European space agency , Hubble space telescope , Illuminating , Netherlands , Proving , Space simulators , Temperature effects
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