Thermal Verification and Testing of Earth Observation and Navigation Platforms: Thales Alenia Space Italia Experience Thales Alenia Space Italia

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Sacchi, E., author.

Conference Name:

International Conference On Environmental Systems (2009-07-12 : Savannah, Georgia, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2009

Summary:

The market pressure towards compression of costs and schedule time affects all the programs activities. For the campaigns of thermal verification in particular, this trend results in the recurring request for shorter and inexpensive test verification campaigns.This paper presents the Thales Alenia Space-Italia experience in the field of the thermal balance tests, by comparing the test philosophies and approaches followed on various Navigation and Earth Observation satellites, for which TAS-I was fully responsible of the thermal control and of the relevant verification.The objectives of the comparison are to highlight the critical choices and the relevant lessons learnt in the test definition process, and to promote the standardization and optimization of the thermal verification campaigns, with particular regard to:The comparison involves the programs Express/MD-3 PLM, Radarsat-2, COSMO-SkyMed, Galileo, Kompsat-5 PLM.The correlation level achieved for each program is presented.The lessons learnt from the appraisal of both the correlation status and of the criticalities emerged in the analyzed thermal balance tests are presented together with the corresponding recommended approaches

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Publisher Number:

2009-01-2430

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