A Ground Test Program to Support Condition Monitoring of a Spacecraft Attitude Control Propulsion System 912169
The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) mission involves seven years of flight from 0.6 to 4.57 Astronomical Units (AU), followed by about 915 days of maneuvering around a comet. Ground testing will characterize the very critical attitude control system thrusters' fuel consumption and performance for all anticipated fuel temperatures over thruster life. The ground test program characterization will support flight condition monitoring. A commercial software application hosted on a commercial microcomputer will control ground test operations and data acquisition using a newly designed thrust stand. The data acquisition and control system uses a graphics-based language and features a visual interface to integrate data acquisition and control.
Citation: Clark, D., Lester, R., Baroth, E., and Coleman, A., "A Ground Test Program to Support Condition Monitoring of a Spacecraft Attitude Control Propulsion System," SAE Technical Paper 912169, 1991, https://doi.org/10.4271/912169. Download Citation
Author(s):
Douglas J. Clark, Robert W. Lester, Edmund C. Baroth, Arthur L. Coleman
Affiliated:
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
Pages: 9
Event:
Aerospace Technology Conference and Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Data acquisition and handling
Control systems
Attitude control
Fuel consumption
Computer software and hardware
Spacecraft
Thrust
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