27th Space Simulation Conference 2012
Annapolis, Maryland, USA 5-8 November 2012
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SESSION 1 - ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS
Development and Test of a Digitally Steered Antenna Array for the Navigator GPS Receiver...... 1 Heitor David Pinto, Jennifer E. Valdez, Luke M. B. Winternitz, Munther A. Hassouneh, Samuel R. Price
Environmental Test Campaign of the James Webb Telescope’s Fine Guidance Sensor the Perils of Testing at the Cutting Edge ...... 19 Raymond J. LeBlanc, David Florida, Elie Choueiry
James Webb Space Telescope: Integrated Science Instrument Module Cryogenic Vacuum Test Planning...... 28 Douglas B. McGuffey, Yan Lui, Ray Lundquist, Brian Comber
Mass Property Measurements of the Mars Science Laboratory Rover ...... 42 Keith Fields
Materials Selection and Radiation Testing for Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)...... 56 P. Tyler Langley, Richard H. Maurer, Carl C. Herrmann
Radiation Belt Storm Probes Spacecraft Thermal Vacuum Testing...... 67 Bruce D. Williams
The Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project (RLLDP) Star Motor Adapter Static Load Test...... 81 Teresa Betenbaugh, Deva Ponnusamy, Timothy Cole
SESSION 2 - DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS
Data Acquisition System Architecture and Capabilities at Nasa GRC Plum Brook Station’s Space Environment Test Facilities ...... 101 Richard K. Evans, Gerald M. Hill
Developing Maintainable Thermal Vacuum Chamber Control Software ...... 120 Christopher Meining, Louis-Philippe Girouard, Elie Choueiry
Rapid Design Cycles and Engineering Test Data...... 127 Robert Eaton
Development of User-friendly Data Acquisition and Control Systems Dedicated to Environmental Simulation System (TVC, Nitrogen Cooled Large Rooms (LTC), Altitude Chambers): Spirale VS...... 141 Hervé Salmon, Arnaud Peret, Nathalie Sammour
SESSION 3 - SPECIAL TOPICS
A New Electromagnetic Environment Test Facility in Kari ...... 159 Kyungduk Jang, Taeyoun Kim, Jaewoong Jang, Sungwook Park, Guewon Moon
An X-Ray Navigation Ground Testbed...... 165 Luke M. B. Winternitz, Munther A. Hassouneh, John A. Gaebler, Jason W. Mitchell, Fotis Gavriil, Zaven Arzoumanian, Keith C. Gendreau
Attitude Control Test Facility for On-Ground System Tests and Software Verification ...... 185 Christian Raschke, Antje Deckert, Anja Nicolai
Return to Mercury: An Overview of the Messenger Spacecraft Thermal Control System Design and Update on Orbital Flight Performance...... 195 Carl J. Ercol, Shawn M. Begley, G. Allan Holtzman
SESSION 4 - MOLECULAR AND PARTICULATE CONTAMINATION
Contamination Control Assessment of the World’s Largest Space Environment Simulation Chamber ...... 221 Aaron Snyder, Michael W. Henry, Stanley P. Grisnik, Stephen M. Sinclair
Low Outgassing Accelerometers and Cables for Thermal Vacuum and Vibration Test Environments...... 241 Bob Metz
Monitoring and Case Studies of Airborne and Surface Molecular Condensables and Particulate Contamination ...... 254 Victor K.F. Chia, Albert Dato, Jennifer K. Jew, Warren York, Fuhe Li, Mark J. Camenzind, Tiffany N. Wilkus, Aparna A. Patel, Hugh Gotts, Dan Cowles, Scott Anderson
On-Orbit Molecular Transport Simulation and Contamination Analysis of the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Nadir Sensor...... 271 Genevieve Devaud, Charles J. Magurany
Precision Cleaning Processes and Material Selection used in New Construction of Gaseous Nitrogen Delivery Systems...... 286 Christian W. Drabenstadt
Reducing Particle Contaminants Deposited on a Specimen During a Thermal Vacuum Test...... 295 Daisuke Takahashi, Shinichi Osato
SESSION 5 - NEW OR REFURBISHED FACILITIES
Direct Field Acoustic Test (DFAT) Development and Flight Testing of Radiation Belt Storm Probe (RBSP) Satellites...... 301 Gordon Maahs
JPL’s Building 144 Upgrade of Ten Small Chambers and Laboratory Facility ...... 329 Andrew Rose
Low Temperature Chambers Using Nitrogen Cooling Construction and Development ...... 343 Nathalie Sammour, Jean Paul Agret, Hervé Salmon
Refurbishment and Enhancement of the 20K Helium Refrigeration System at Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale, CA...... 355 Max Kozyrczak, Manfred Diehl
Space Power Facility – Capabilities for Space Environmental Testing Within a Single Facility...... 365 Richard N. Sorge
Structural Dynamic Assessment of the GN2 Piping System for NASA’s New and Powerful Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility ...... 377 Mark E. McNelis, Lucas D. Staab, James C. Akers, William O. Hughes, Li C. Chang, Aron D. Hozman, Michael W. Henry
SESSION 6 - NOVEL TESTING REQUIREMENTS AND APPROACHES
Development of a Combined Environment Test Chamber with UV and Electron Sources ...... 414 John R. Nichols, Christian W. Drabenstadt, P. Tyler Langley, Ryan T. McMichael, Matthew W. Noble
Development of a Ground-based Facility to Study Combined Effects ...... 421 Carlos A. Maldonado, Andrew D. Ketsdever, Lauren Rand, Kan Xie, Casey Farnell, John Williams
Further Developments Using MIMO Acoustic Control for DFAT®...... 431 Paul Larkin
Testing a Small Energy Conversion Module Under Multiple Suns in Vacuum ...... 455 Paul Jaffe, David Scheiman, Karina Hemmendinger
The Fatigue Damage Spectrum and Kurtosis Control ...... 467 John Van Baren, Phillip Van Baren
Thermal Design and Testing of a Nano-Satellite...... 471 Michael Marley
Tilting and Spinning - A New Ride on the High Capacity Centrifuge ...... 484 William Vaughan Chambers
Author Index