Determination of disturbances acting on small satellite mock-up on air bearing table

In this paper the facility for the simulation of satellite motion based on planar air-bearing deweighting is considered. The air bearing provides almost frictionless horizontal motion of the small satellite mock-ups. Due to the presence of gravitational and air flow disturbances the motion is far fr...

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Published inActa astronautica Vol. 142; pp. 265 - 276
Main Authors Ivanov, D., Koptev, M., Mashtakov, Y., Ovchinnikov, M., Proshunin, N., Tkachev, S., Fedoseev, A., Shachkov, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elmsford Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2018
Elsevier BV
Subjects
Air flow
Bearing
Control algorithm
Disturbance determination
Disturbances
Gravitation
Motion determination
Satellites
Simulation
Studies
Test-bench
Control algorithm
Test-bench
Disturbance determination
Motion determination
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Summary:In this paper the facility for the simulation of satellite motion based on planar air-bearing deweighting is considered. The air bearing provides almost frictionless horizontal motion of the small satellite mock-ups. Due to the presence of gravitational and air flow disturbances the motion is far from rectilinear and uniform. This paper is devoted to the determination of these disturbances.
ISSN:0094-5765
1879-2030
DOI:10.1016/j.actaastro.2017.11.010