AURORA-Stratosphere and Magnetic Field Polar Explorer is a student experiment from the Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale of the Sapienza, University of Rome. This experiment flown on board the stratospheric balloon BEXUS-7 in the framework of the educational program REXUS-BEXUS (Rocket and Balloon Experiments for University Students) of the European Space Agency (ESA) in order to allow students to participate in all phases of a real mission, starting from the proposal through the mission requirements definition, design, building and ground test campaign, and ending with data analysis and presentation of the results. The results of the preliminary thermal tests performed in the laboratory of the Group of Astrodynamics of the Sapienza, University of Roma (GAUSS) have been compared with those obtained performing thermal-vacuum tests at the Mechanical System Laboratory (TEC-MCV) of ESA-ESTEC in Nordwijk (The Netherlands). The data analysis and results of the AURORA experiment have been presented in the paper.
THE AURORA EXPERIMENT: OVERVIEW AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS / M., Lettiero; A., Pecorario; M. L., Battagliere; E., Pifferi; Piergentili, Fabrizio; Santoni, Fabio. - STAMPA. - 671:(2009), pp. 489-494. (Intervento presentato al convegno 19th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research tenutosi a Bad Reichenhall, GERMANY nel JUN 07-11, 2009).
THE AURORA EXPERIMENT: OVERVIEW AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS
PIERGENTILI, FABRIZIO;SANTONI, Fabio
2009
Abstract
AURORA-Stratosphere and Magnetic Field Polar Explorer is a student experiment from the Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale of the Sapienza, University of Rome. This experiment flown on board the stratospheric balloon BEXUS-7 in the framework of the educational program REXUS-BEXUS (Rocket and Balloon Experiments for University Students) of the European Space Agency (ESA) in order to allow students to participate in all phases of a real mission, starting from the proposal through the mission requirements definition, design, building and ground test campaign, and ending with data analysis and presentation of the results. The results of the preliminary thermal tests performed in the laboratory of the Group of Astrodynamics of the Sapienza, University of Roma (GAUSS) have been compared with those obtained performing thermal-vacuum tests at the Mechanical System Laboratory (TEC-MCV) of ESA-ESTEC in Nordwijk (The Netherlands). The data analysis and results of the AURORA experiment have been presented in the paper.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
