NASA Ames Hover Test Vehicle -- Latest Results
- Paper number
IAC-09.B4.8.5
- Author
Dr. Christopher Boshuizen, NASA - Ames Research Center, United States
- Year
2009
- Abstract
The NASA Ames Hover Test Vehicle (HTV) is a robust, ground-based test vehicle designed to provide an instructional platform for a spacecraft development team. The HTV consists of a non-spaceflight, cold-gas propulsion system and integrated avionics system and has previously been shown to be capable of around 6 seconds of tethered or free-flight hover capability (see IAC-08-B4.8.3). This paper presents the latest progress with the HTV, including the demonstration of the first fully closed loop, on board control hover test with this system. Other developments include an optimized process for flight software development, improved hover performance, and the reduction of the HTV ground segment infrastructure down to a single, portable workstation, allowing the demonstrated operation of the HTV at other locations, and eventual outdoor testing.
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