A Cassini spacecraft simulator in a full scale 60 foot high Titan 4 payload fairing with various acoustic blanket designs and configurations was recently tested in a large reverberant acoustic chamber. A first part companion paper provides the test configuration details and other background information. This paper addresses the results obtained from this test program. Emphasis will be on the effects of the new blanket designs on reducing the payload fairing's internal acoustics and the vibration response of the spacecraft's Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators. Other results discussed include: the effect of blankets on fairing vibration, the effect of partial blanket coverage on acoustics and vibration and the effect of tuned vibration absorbers.


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    Title :

    Acoustic Testing of the Cassini Spacecraft and Titan IV Payload Fairing, Part 2


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    Publication date :

    1997


    Size :

    12 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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