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Title: MUPUS insertion device for the Rosetta mission, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2007, nr 1

Creator:

Spohn, Tilman ; Seweryn, Karol ; Banaszkiewicz, Marek ; Grygorczuk, Jerzy

Date:

2007, nr 1

Resource Type:

artykuł

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An original mechanical device designed to insert a penetrator into a cometary nucleus in an almost gravityfree environment is described. The device comprises a hammer and a power supply system that stores electrical energy in a capacitor. The accumulated energy is discharged through a coil forming a part of electromagnetic circuit that accelerates the hammer. The efficiency of converting the electrical energy to kinetic energy of the hammer is not very high (amounts to about 25%), but the system is very reliable. Additionally, the hammer energy can be chosen from four power settings, hence adjustment of the stroke’s strength to nucleus hard- ness is possible. The device passed many mechanical, func- tional, thermal and vibration tests and was improved from one model to another. The final, flight model was integrated with the lander Philae and started its space journey to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in March 2004.

Publisher:

Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Warszawa

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application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:bc.itl.waw.pl:239

DOI:

10.26636/jtit.2007.1.794

ISSN:

1509-4553

eISSN:

1899-8852

Source:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Language:

ang

Rights Management:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności

Subject and keywords:

penetrators hammering device comets

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Grygorczuk, Jerzy; Banaszkiewicz, Marek; Seweryn, Karol; Spohn, Tilman, MUPUS insertion device for the Rosetta mission, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2007, nr 1 Feb 25, 2026

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