Solar sails are being developed as a mission-enabling technology in support of future NASA science missions. Current efforts have advanced solar sail technology sufficient to justify a flight validation program. A primary objective of this activity is to test and validate solar sail models that are currently under development so that they may be used with confidence in future science mission development (e.g., scalable to larger sails). Both system and model validation requirements must be defined early in the program to guide design cycles and to ensure that relevant and sufficient test data will be obtained to conduct model validation to the level required. A process of model identification, model input/output documentation, model sensitivity analyses, and test measurement correspondence is required so that decisions can be made to satisfy validation requirements within program constraints.


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    Title :

    Solar Sail Models and Test Measurements Correspondence for Validation Requirements Definition


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Solar Sail Technology and Applications Conference ; 2004 ; Greenbelt, MD, United States


    Publication date :

    2004-09-15


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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