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A Ground Test Program to Support Condition Monitoring of a Spacecraft Attitude Control Propulsion System
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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.
Authors
- Douglas J. Clark - Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
- Robert W. Lester - Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
- Edmund C. Baroth - Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
- Arthur L. Coleman - Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
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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.Also In
References
- Garrison, P. W. “The CRAF/Cassini Spacecraft Propulsion Subsystem - A Preliminary Design.” AIAA/SAE/ASME 27th Joint Propulsion Conference June 24-26 1991 Sacramento, CA