The project allows the development (up to TRL5) of a thrust vector control (TVC) system. The designed TVC is a dedicated system for the deorbiting solid rocket motor, which happens to be also developed parallel at Łukasiewicz – IoA (SPRODEM). TVC has to compensate trajectory misalignments and uncertainties coming from spacecraft centre of mass, inertia, initial attitude and motion, flexibility of appendages, sloshing, thrust variation from motors and different burning time, in order to set correctly the position during the whole deorbitation manoeuvre. Therefore, by adding TVC to SRM, the system gains better control of attitude and orientation: improves in terms of reliability which is essential in assuring a successful and safe re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere.
Project leader: Ewa Majewska, MSc Eng.
Phone: (+ 48) 22 846 44 32 ext. 578
E-mail: ewa.majewska@ilot.lukasiewicz.gov.pl
Project duration: 09.09.2020 – 08.09.2022
Funding institution: European Space Agency
Programme name: ESA – GSTP
Consortium: Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation, Astronika