The remote sensing of the Earth's features from space requires precision pointing of scientific instruments. To this end, the NASA Langley Research Center has been involved in developing numerous controlled structures technologies. This paper describes one of the more promising technologies for minimizing pointing jitter, namely, payload isolation. The application of passive and active payload mounts for attenuation of pointing jitter of the EOS AM-1 spacecraft is discussed. In addition, analysis and ground tests to validate the performance of isolation mounts using a scaled dynamics model of the EOS AM-1 spacecraft are presented.


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    Title :

    Isolation of Science Payloads from Spacecraft Vibrations


    Contributors:
    D. W. Sparks (author) / L. G. Horta (author) / K. B. Elliott (author) / W. K. Belvin (author)

    Publication date :

    1995


    Size :

    16 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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