Lessons learned from REXUS12'S Suaineadh Experiment: spinning deployment of a space web in milli gravity
On the 19th of March 2012, the Suaineadh experiment was launched onboard the sounding rocket REXUS 12 (Rocket Experiments for University Students) from the Swedish launch base ESRANGE in Kiruna. The Suaineadh experiment served as a technology demonstrator for a space web deployed by a spinning assem...
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ftuglasgow:oai:eprints.gla.ac.uk:91158 2023-05-15T17:04:16+02:00 Lessons learned from REXUS12'S Suaineadh Experiment: spinning deployment of a space web in milli gravity Sinn, Thomas McRobb, Malcolm Wujek, Adam Skogby, Jerker Rogberg, Fredrik Wang, Junyi Vasile, Massimiliano Tibert, Gunnar 2013 http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/91158/ http://www.spaceflight.esa.int/pac-symposium2013/ unknown ESA Communications Sinn, T., McRobb, M. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/24809.html> , Wujek, A., Skogby, J., Rogberg, F., Wang, J., Vasile, M. and Tibert, G. (2013) Lessons learned from REXUS12'S Suaineadh Experiment: spinning deployment of a space web in milli gravity. In: 21st ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, Thun, Switzerland, 9-13 Jun 2013, pp. 329-338. Conference Proceedings NonPeerReviewed 2013 ftuglasgow 2021-09-23T23:06:21Z On the 19th of March 2012, the Suaineadh experiment was launched onboard the sounding rocket REXUS 12 (Rocket Experiments for University Students) from the Swedish launch base ESRANGE in Kiruna. The Suaineadh experiment served as a technology demonstrator for a space web deployed by a spinning assembly. Following launch, the experiment was ejected from the ejection barrel located within the nosecone of the rocket. Centrifugal forces acting upon the space web spinning assembly were used to stabilise the experiment’s platform. A specifically designed spinning reaction wheel, with an active control method, was used. Once the experiment’s motion was controlled, a 2 m by 2 m space web is released. Four daughter sections situated in the corners of the square web served as masses to stabilise the web due to the centrifugal forces acting on them. The four daughter sections contained inertial measurement units (IMUs). After the launch of REXUS12, the recovery helicopter was unable to locate the ejected experiment, but 22 pictures were received over the wireless connection between the experiment and the rocket. The last received picture was taken at the commencement of web deployment. Inspection of these pictures allowed the assumption that the experiment was fully functional after ejection, but probably through tumbling of either the experiment or the rocket, the wireless connection was interrupted. A recovery mission in the middle of August was only able to find the REXUS12 motor and the payload impact location. Conference Object Kiruna University of Glasgow: Enlighten - Publications Esrange ENVELOPE(21.117,21.117,67.883,67.883) Kiruna |
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On the 19th of March 2012, the Suaineadh experiment was launched onboard the sounding rocket REXUS 12 (Rocket Experiments for University Students) from the Swedish launch base ESRANGE in Kiruna. The Suaineadh experiment served as a technology demonstrator for a space web deployed by a spinning assembly. Following launch, the experiment was ejected from the ejection barrel located within the nosecone of the rocket. Centrifugal forces acting upon the space web spinning assembly were used to stabilise the experiment’s platform. A specifically designed spinning reaction wheel, with an active control method, was used. Once the experiment’s motion was controlled, a 2 m by 2 m space web is released. Four daughter sections situated in the corners of the square web served as masses to stabilise the web due to the centrifugal forces acting on them. The four daughter sections contained inertial measurement units (IMUs). After the launch of REXUS12, the recovery helicopter was unable to locate the ejected experiment, but 22 pictures were received over the wireless connection between the experiment and the rocket. The last received picture was taken at the commencement of web deployment. Inspection of these pictures allowed the assumption that the experiment was fully functional after ejection, but probably through tumbling of either the experiment or the rocket, the wireless connection was interrupted. A recovery mission in the middle of August was only able to find the REXUS12 motor and the payload impact location. |
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Sinn, Thomas McRobb, Malcolm Wujek, Adam Skogby, Jerker Rogberg, Fredrik Wang, Junyi Vasile, Massimiliano Tibert, Gunnar Lessons learned from REXUS12'S Suaineadh Experiment: spinning deployment of a space web in milli gravity |
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Sinn, Thomas McRobb, Malcolm Wujek, Adam Skogby, Jerker Rogberg, Fredrik Wang, Junyi Vasile, Massimiliano Tibert, Gunnar |
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Lessons learned from REXUS12'S Suaineadh Experiment: spinning deployment of a space web in milli gravity |
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Lessons learned from REXUS12'S Suaineadh Experiment: spinning deployment of a space web in milli gravity |
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Lessons learned from REXUS12'S Suaineadh Experiment: spinning deployment of a space web in milli gravity |
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Sinn, T., McRobb, M. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/24809.html> , Wujek, A., Skogby, J., Rogberg, F., Wang, J., Vasile, M. and Tibert, G. (2013) Lessons learned from REXUS12'S Suaineadh Experiment: spinning deployment of a space web in milli gravity. In: 21st ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, Thun, Switzerland, 9-13 Jun 2013, pp. 329-338. |
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