Prediction of the LISA-Pathfinder release mechanism in-flight performance |
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| Authors: | Daniele Bortoluzzi John W Conklin Carlo Zanoni |
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| Institution: | 1. Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, I-38123 TN, Italy;2. National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Trento associated group, Italy;3. Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA |
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| Abstract: | In the LISA Pathfinder mission, the grabbing positioning and release mechanism will perform a critical phase, which is the injection of a test mass into a perfect free-fall condition (also called geodesic trajectory). A possible failure is the test mass remaining adhered to the mechanism or released with an excessive velocity, which would hinder the subsequent capacitive control to the desired geodesic status. |
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| Keywords: | LISA Pathfinder Injection into geodesic motion Drag-free Space mechanism testing Space mechanism modeling |
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