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Retrofitting a fine-pointing system to satellite optics
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Woods, Robert O. |
| Copyright Year | 1995 |
| Description | This paper describes a system added to an existing satellite-borne telescope design for the purpose of compensating the boresight errors that had been observed in earlier flights of similar instruments. Those errors had been found to be caused by thermal distortion of the spaceframe. This retrofit design was subjected to severe volume restrictions because it was fitted into an already tightly-packaged instrument envelope. It was found practical to improve the basic design by converting a redundant structure into a statically-determinate one. It was also possible to use portions of the mechanical actuation system to facilitate the position encoding needed for computer interfacing. |
| File Size | 378117 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19950020857 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2b906673 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1995-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Optics Satellite-borne Instruments Retrofitting Telescopes Distortion Redundant Components Boresight Error Spacecraft Structures Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
