Publication Date:
2019-06-28
Description:
The Gravity Probe-B spacecraft is composed largely of a liquid helium dewar containing an experiment package. It is shown that an unsymmetric liquid helium distribution in the dewar can cause unacceptably high forces, gravitational and gravity gradient forces, at the experiment location. It is further shown that for the planned spacecraft configuration and operational parameters, it is very likely that the liquid helium distribution in the dewar will be unsymmetric. The required symmetry can be attained by using higher operational spacecraft rotation rates.
Keywords:
FLUID MECHANICS AND HEAT TRANSFER
Type:
NASA-TP-2124
,
NAS 1.60:2124
Format:
application/pdf
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