The Space Technology-7 Disturbance Reduction System (DRS) is an experiment package aboard the European Space Agency (ESA) LISA Pathfinder spacecraft. LISA Pathfinder launched from Kourou, French Guiana on December 3, 2015. The DRS is tasked to validate two specific technologies: colloidal micro-Newton thrusters (CMNT) to provide low-noise control capability of the spacecraft, and drag-free controlflight. This validation is performed using highly sensitive drag-free sensors, which are provided by the LISA Technology Package of the European Space Agency. The Disturbance Reduction System is required to maintain the spacecrafts position with respect to a free-floating test mass to better than 10nm/(square root of Hz), along its sensitive axis (axis in optical metrology). It also has a goal of limiting the residual accelerations of any of the two test masses to below 30 x 10(exp -14) (1 + ([f/3 mHz](exp 2))) m/sq s/(square root of Hz), over the frequency range of 1 to 30 mHz.This paper briefly describes the design and the expected on-orbit performance of the control system for the two modes wherein the drag-free performance requirements are verified. The on-orbit performance of these modes are then compared to the requirements, as well as to the expected performance, and discussed.


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    Title :

    Drag-Free Performance of the ST7 Disturbance Reduction System Flight Experiment on the LISA Pathfinder


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    Conference:

    International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems ; 2017 ; Salzburg, Austria


    Publication date :

    2017-05-29


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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