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HMM<br />

Assessment Study<br />

Report: CDF-20(A)<br />

February 2004<br />

page 191 of 422<br />

The functions the ACS has to accomplish are:<br />

• Attitude control while cruising to Earth<br />

• Earth retargeting<br />

• Rate dumping after TEI motor separation: 0.5 degrees/s dumped in 30 sec (maximum<br />

attitude error within 15 degrees)<br />

The most stringent requirement is the last one. To fulfil that a control authority of 6700 Nm is<br />

needed. If the thrusters are dislocated in the two stations P1 and P2, the following torque arms<br />

shall be realized (with respect to the centre of mass):<br />

b1 = 13.7 m, b2 = 5.3 m<br />

Thrust needed = 6700/13.7+5.3 = 360 N<br />

This can be realized by either ATV ACS thrusters of 220 N each or Ariane-5 SCA thrusters,<br />

qualified for 350 N but easily adaptable also to 550 N.<br />

So clusters of two thrusters could be used (or three thrusters, one redundant). This study will<br />

assume a cluster of two ATV thrusters, giving a control authority of 440 N.<br />

To save propellant, while cruising, the attitude control shall be performed by using Control<br />

Moment Gyros (CMG) instead of thrusters. A set of CMG of the class of those used on the ISS is<br />

preliminarily baselined. The set of 4 CMG is about 230 kg. However, the suitability of these<br />

devices have to be verified against the disturbances induced by the crew, which have not been<br />

estimated yet.<br />

3.3.5.2 AOCS for MEV+THM+ERC+TEI+MOI<br />

Due to the integrated configuration for the TEI and MOI modules, a single ACS shall be<br />

designed, sized to comply with the worst case of the two mission phases.<br />

In this configuration three control points shall be actives: P1, P2 and P3, as shown in Figure<br />

3-48.<br />

P3<br />

EV<br />

Airlock A 1<br />

P2<br />

Habitation Module<br />

P1<br />

Figure 3-48: TEI and MOI configuration

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