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.
On the isolation of science payloads from spacecraft vibrations
Über die Kapselung von wissenschaftlicher Nutzlast gegenüber Raumfahrzeugerschütterungen
1995
11 Seiten, 15 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 23 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Raumfahrzeug , Erschütterung , Nutzlast , Kapselung , Konstruktion , Minimierung , Befestigung , Dämpfung , Modell , Dynamik
Isolation of Science Payloads from Spacecraft Vibrations
NTIS | 1995
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British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
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