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Rotating-unbalanced-mass devices and methods for scanning balloon- borne- experiments, free-flying spacecraft, and space shuttle/space station attached experiments
Rotating-unbalanced-mass devices and methods for scanning balloon- borne- experiments, free-flying spacecraft, and space shuttle/space station attached experiments
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机译：旋转不平衡质量的装置和方法，用于扫描气球载实验，自由飞行的航天器以及航天飞机/空间站附属实验
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A method and apparatus for scanning balloon-borne experiments, free- flying spacecraft, or gimballed experiments mounted on a space shuttle or space station, makes use of one or more rotating unbalanced mass devices for selectively generating circular, line, or raster scan patterns for the experiment line of sight. An auxiliary control system may also be used in combination with the rotating unbalanced mass device, for target acquisition, keeping the scan centered on the target, or for producing complementary motion for raster scanning. The rotating unbalanced mass makes use of a mass associated with a drive shaft, such mass having a center of gravity which is displaced from the drive shaft rotation axis. The drive shaft is driven with a substantially constant angular velocity, thereby resulting in relatively low power requirements since no acceleration or deceleration of the mass is generally involved during steady state operations. The resulting centrifugal force of the rotating unbalanced mass is used to generate desired reaction forces on the experiment or spacecraft to create a desired scan pattern for the experiment line of sight.
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