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Lessons Learned – Unrestrained Separation Nuts May Damage or Hinder Flight Hardware (2002)

contributor authorNASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
date accessioned2017-09-04T15:11:36Z
date available2017-09-04T15:11:36Z
date copyright01/01/2003
date issued2003
identifier otherLUVEQCAAAAAAAAAA.pdf
identifier urihttps://yse.yabesh.ir/std/handle/yse/10048
description abstractDescription of Driving Event:
In a complex rover separation event after a Mars landing, pyrotechnic devices are used to release the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Warm Electronics Box (WEB) from the lander basepetal. If the separation does not occur, the rover does not release and cannot escape the lander. The WEB design called for each separation nut to be free and un-restrained after release, without considering any possible impact damage. The 8 "sep nuts" on each rover were fired successfully during system test. Each was rapidly expelled from the basepetal to strike a rock protection cup located 7 mm beneath the sep nut.
In testing of both MER1 and MER2, the impact resulted in severe damage to the pyro cables attached to the bottom of the nuts. The pyro cabling was damaged sufficiently to cause multiple shorts to chassis that could have over-stressed the pyro system electronics. Redesign efforts to apply padding to the sep nut backshells were complicated by the configuration of the adjacent hardware.
languageEnglish
titleNASA-LLIS-1360num
titleLessons Learned – Unrestrained Separation Nuts May Damage or Hinder Flight Hardware (2002)en
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page3
statusActive
treeNASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):;2003
contenttypefulltext
subject keywordsATLO
subject keywordsComputer-Aided Design/Manufacturing/Engineering
subject keywordsdeployment mechanisms
subject keywordsEnergetic Materials - Explosive/Propellant/Pyrotechnic
subject keywordsFlight Equipment
subject keywordsHardware
subject keywordsPayloads
subject keywordspyro test
subject keywordsSafety & Mission Assurance
subject keywordsSpacecraft
subject keywordsstructural interference
subject keywordsstructural modeling
subject keywordssystem safety
subject keywordsTest & Verification
subject keywordsTest Article
subject keywordstest induced damage


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