The platform for acquisition of acceleration data (PAANDA) -- Concept and system architecture
- Paper number
IAC-08.A2.1.7
- Author
Prof. Marcelo C. Tosin, State University of Londrina, Brazil
- Coauthor
Mr. Luis G. Gimenez de Souza, State University of Londrina, Brazil
- Coauthor
Prof. Francisco Granziera Júnior, State University of Londrina, Brazil
- Year
2008
- Abstract
The platform for acquisition of acceleration data (PAANDA) is an instrument conceived to measure the residual acceleration present at the microgravity period of a sounding rocket launched microgravity platform. The PAANDA was designed to be capable to measure accelerations with magnitude around 1 µg and also to measure the acceleration profile during the microgravity platform launching and reentry phases. The built instrument uses an orthogonal triad of pendular force-balance accelerometers model QA2000-010 from Honeywell. Their acceleration and temperature signals are acquired using an A/D conversion scheme. The temperatures of the critical points at system’s circuit are other relevant parameters are also acquired. These data are formatted, stored at the instrument’s non-volatile memory and also sent through the microgravity platform telemetry system for posterior temperature compensation and analysis. This article details the instrument concept and architecture. It also describes the launching logistics; it discusses related problems during the instrument operation and the implemented solutions. This work also shows the instrument preliminary performance figure during flight.
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