Theseparationofspacecraftcomponents,whichoccurineveryflight,representscrucialandmajoreventsthatmustbesuccessfullyexecutedtofulfillmissionrequirements.Separationsystemsvaryaswidelyinphysicalandfunctionalpropertiesastheperformancerequirementswhichtheymustsatisfy;however,mostsystemsusehelicalcompressionspringsasanenergysource.Thispapersummarizestheprincipaldesigncharacteristicsofseparationmechanismsandempiricaldataobtainedfromactualseparationsinspace.


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    Title :

    Compression-Spring Separation Mechanisms


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    1st Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium ; 1966 ; Santa Clara, CA, US



    Publication date :

    1966-05-19


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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