Manufacturing and handling procedures for planetary spacecraft which are to be sterilized by heating
Manufacturing, assembly, and handling procedures for planetary spacecraft to be heat sterilized
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Manufacturing, assembly, and handling procedures for planetary spacecraft to be heat sterilized
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In-Situ instruments are an integral part of mission designs for exploration of planetary surfaces. A technology gap exists today between sample acquisition and sample analysis tools. Integrated science payload packages need an integrated sample handling system.
In today's budgetary environment, there is significant interest within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to enable small robotic science missions that can be executed faster and cheaper than previous larger missions. To help achieve this, focus has shifted from using exclusively radiation-tolerant or radiation-hardened parts to using more commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components for NASA small satellite missions that can last at least one year in orbit. However, there are some portions of a spacecraft's avionics, such as the Command and Data Handling (C&DH) subsystem and the Power System Electronics (PSE) that need to have a higher level of reliability that goes beyond what is attainable with currently available COTS parts. While there are a number of COTS components that can withstand a total ionizing dose (TID) of tens or hundreds of kilorads, there is still a great deal of concern about tolerance to and mitigation of single-event effects (SEE).
Control models of three NASA Urban Air Mobility (UAM) reference vehicles (the quadrotor, octocopter, and Lift+Cruise (LPC)) were created and compared to determine the effect of rotor number and disk loading on control margin and design. The heave and yaw axes demand more actuator usage than the roll and pitch axes. Between heave and yaw, heave was the more demanding of the two because of the dependence of heave on the engine speed controller (ESC). When the feedback gains for all three vehicles were optimized to Level 1 handling qualities (HQs) specifications using CONDUIT, the ESC for the octocopter was the most stable and had the highest rise time (time for the rotor to respond to an input), while the LPC ESC was the least stable and had the smallest rise time. Rise time corresponds to the time required for rotor response. When actuator usage was translated to current margin, torque margin, and power margin, heave was the most demanding axis, followed by yaw, roll, and then pitch for all three vehicles. The results emphasize the importance of an accurate motor model within the control system architecture.
These slides were used as a presentation to the Vertical Flight Society Flight Test Committee briefing the FAA's new approach to Handling Quality Evaluation.
This Acceptable Knowledge (AK) Summary Report has been prepared for the Central Characterization Program (CCP) for remote-handled (RH) transuranic (TRU) waste generated and managed by the Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC), formerly Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W) and part of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The waste described in this report, depleted uranium ingots (waste stream ID-MFC-DU-INGOT), was historically generated in Building 765, the Fuel Conditioning Facility (FCF), formerly, Hot Fuel Examination Facility (HFEF)-South. This AK Summary Report, along with the referenced supporting documents, provides a defensible and auditable record of AK for the designated waste stream, depleted uranium ingots, produced from the FCF electrorefining process. The references and AK source documents used to prepare this report are listed in Sections 8.0 and 9.0 respectively. The source documents cited throughout this report are identified by alphanumeric designations corresponding to a unique Source Document Tracking Number (e.g., AKA01, C001, CCE01, DR001, M001, P001, and U001).