Vibration Isolation Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload
| Autor: | John M. Rutherford, Sarah N. T. Heine, F. S. Porter, Dan McCammon, Phil Oakley, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, P. Wikus |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Heine, Sarah Nicole Trowbridge, Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali, Rutherford, J. M., Wikus, P., Oakley, P. H. H., Porter, F. S., McCammon, D. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Materials science
business.product_category Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors business.industry Payload Detector Imaging spectrometer Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics FOS: Physical sciences Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Vibration Depth sounding Vibration isolation Electric power transmission Rocket General Materials Science Aerospace engineering business Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) |
| Zdroj: | arXiv |
| Popis: | Micro-X is a NASA-funded, sounding rocket-borne X-ray imaging spectrometer that will allow high precision measurements of velocity structure, ionization state and elemental composition of extended astrophysical systems. One of the biggest challenges in payload design is to maintain the temperature of the detectors during launch. There are several vibration damping stages to prevent energy transmission from the rocket skin to the detector stage, which causes heating during launch. Each stage should be more rigid than the outer stages to achieve vibrational isolation. We describe a major design effort to tune the resonance frequencies of these vibration isolation stages to reduce heating problems prior to the projected launch in the summer of 2014. 6 pages, 7 figures, LTD15 Conference Proceedings |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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