Session
Swifty Session 9: Space Access
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC) designed the CSD to be a more secure, predictable, and consistent CubeSat deployment system. Though the CSD has proven its safety and reliability on orbit and in other air-and ground-based tests, there was still not enough data needed to develop analytical profiles describing CSD deployment angular and linear velocities and accelerations. The goal of this research effort is to first tune a dynamics model using experimental data collected from three sources: (1) PSC’s microgravity deployment tests onboard a C-9 aircraft in 2014; (2) AFIT led lab bench experiments in 2016; and (3) AFRL-AFIT led tests at NASA Glenn Research Center’s (GRC’s) microgravity drop tower in 2017. The second part of this presented research is to evaluate the model prediction performance against various configurations followed by an evaluation of which experimental data sources yields the best tuned dynamics model.
Validating Deployment Dynamics of the Canisterized Satellite Dispenser (CSD)
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC) designed the CSD to be a more secure, predictable, and consistent CubeSat deployment system. Though the CSD has proven its safety and reliability on orbit and in other air-and ground-based tests, there was still not enough data needed to develop analytical profiles describing CSD deployment angular and linear velocities and accelerations. The goal of this research effort is to first tune a dynamics model using experimental data collected from three sources: (1) PSC’s microgravity deployment tests onboard a C-9 aircraft in 2014; (2) AFIT led lab bench experiments in 2016; and (3) AFRL-AFIT led tests at NASA Glenn Research Center’s (GRC’s) microgravity drop tower in 2017. The second part of this presented research is to evaluate the model prediction performance against various configurations followed by an evaluation of which experimental data sources yields the best tuned dynamics model.
