MTA SIM Motor Temperatures


We track the SIM Translation Drive Motor Temperature using msid 3TRMTRAT. Below are plots for the entire mission showing temperature changes during each translation. Solid lines indicate the start temperatures (blue) and stop temperatures (red) smoothed by a factor of 100. Also plotted is spacecraft pitch angle (pt_suncent_ang) for reference. We explore the relationship between delta T and attitude and delta T vs. move distance.
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Entire Mission



16.Aug 2007, bspitzbart at cfa dot harvard dot edu