Technologies of space exploration
Otklik Experiment
Monitor Unit
Operator Console
Primary Converter
Objectives:
- Updating meteoroid and technogenic environment model at altitudes of the Station flight in hazardous and unobserved by other aids particle size range (0.1-1.0 mm) in the interests of development of the flight equipment for monitoring meteoroid and technogenic hazards;
- development test of the equipment recording the particle impacts on the Station external surface to develop a system for online determination of coordinates of the Station pressure shell breakdown points.
Tasks:
- Installation of equipment, cable laying and connection;
- Hardware operation in automatic mode.
Science Hardware Used:
Science hardware OTKLIK consisting of:
- monitor unit (MU);
- operator console (OC);
- primary piezoelectric converters (sensors) with preamplifier (13 pcs);
- cable network.
Expected results:
Data on record rate of meteoroid particles and their parameters obtained at sufficiently long time intervals (several years) will be used for updating the environment models when calculating a risk of damage of separate ISS elements, as well as for accepting decisions on inspection of the Station external surface at points of the most strong impacts.
Experiment results:
Information with impact parameters as files with digital arrays to be downlinked to the ground through БИТС2-12 channels.
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