ArticleScientific reports2016
Microgravity Level Measurement of the Beijing Drop Tower Using a Sensitive Accelerometer.
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- Drop tower tests of Taiji-1 inertial sensor substitute.NPJ microgravity · 2021Article
- Microgravity disturbance analysis on Chinese space laboratory.NPJ microgravity · 2019Article
- Repeated Changes to the Gravitational Field Negatively Affect the Serum Concentration of Select Growth Factors and Cytokines.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Gravitational stress during parabolic flights reduces the number of circulating innate and adaptive leukocyte subsets in human blood.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
Drop tower is the most common ground-based facility to provide microgravity environment and widely used in many science experiments. A differential space accelerometer has been proposed to test the spin-gravity interaction between rotating extended bodies onboard a drag-free satellite. In order to assist design and test of this inertial sensor in a series of ground- based pre-flight experiments, it is very important to know accurately the residual acceleration of drop towers. In this report, a sensitive instrument for this purpose was built with a high-performance servo quartz accelerometer, and the dedicated interface electronics design providing small full-scale range and high sensitivity, up to 136.8 V/g0. The residual acceleration at the Beijing drop tower was measured using two different drop capsules. The experimental result shows that the microgravity level of the free-falling double capsule is better than 2 × 10(-4)g0 (Earth's gravity). The measured data in this report provides critical microgravity information for design of the following ground experiments.
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