The Dawn spacecraft concluded eleven years of operations on 31-Oct-2018, upon depletion of its hydrazine supply in Ceres orbit during the second extended mission. Dawn’s Reaction Control System performed admirably during this lengthy campaign, including years of unanticipated and novel operation given Reaction Wheel Assembly failures during flight. New and modified modes of thruster operations were implemented during the mission. Pressure transducer drift was negligible, consumable limits were generally not exceeded (except for minor violations in Reaction Control System thruster cycles), and thruster performance was nominal throughout this long interplanetary journey. Tank models of hydrazine remaining mass were consistent with depletion within uncertainties, although thruster consumption-based models ended up being conservative by 15%. Unexpectedly, apparent nitrogen permeation through the hydrazine tank elastomer diaphragm allowed hydrazine in the lines below the tank to be pressurized and subsequently utilized during the final days of the mission.


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    Titel :

    Final Dawn Reaction Control System (RCS) propulsion system in-flight characterization


    Beteiligte:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-08-19


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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