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    Design, manufacturing, and assembly of the GRASS small body gravimeter spring

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    Authors
    Noeker, M.
    Ritter, B.
    Van Ransbeeck, E.
    Karatekin, Ö.
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    Discipline
    Physical sciences
    Subject
    Asteroids
    Bending (forming)
    Laser beam cutting
    Solar equipment
    Tropics
    Bending spring
    Cubesat
    Didymos
    Dimorpho
    GRASS
    Hera mission
    Instrumentation
    Low gravity environment
    Small bodies
    Space gravimeter
    Gravimeters
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2024
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    Description
    The GRAvimeter for small Solar System bodies (GRASS) is a novel spring-based gravimeter for the application in extremely low-gravity environments on small bodies in our Solar System. It is one of the Juventas CubeSat payloads as part of the ESA Hera mission to measure the surface gravity on the asteroid moon Dimorphos. The GRASS gravimeter was successfully launched on-board Hera on 7 October 2024. Key element of this instrument is the gravimeter spring, a cantilever-type bending spring, allowing for measurements at arbitrary instrument orientation. This paper presents the design, manufacturing, and integration of the developed sensing element assembly. The spring design can serve as a future reference for data analysis of the gravimeter data obtained in-situ on extraterrestrial surfaces. The manufacturing process is detailed, including the raw material, laser cutting, heat treatment, and gold sputtering. The step-by-step assembly describes the integration of the spring assembly which includes the clamping of the spring and the tip mass, added to the spring to realise larger deflections and henceforth increase the sensitivity of the instrument for the small body gravity environment.
    Citation
    Noeker, M.; Ritter, B.; Van Ransbeeck, E.; Karatekin, Ö. (2024). Design, manufacturing, and assembly of the GRASS small body gravimeter spring. , CEAS Space Journal, DOI: 10.1007/s12567-024-00574-8.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/14024
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12567-024-00574-8
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    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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