The use of "NIRVANA" facility for balloon characterization: strain and tightness measurements of zero pressure and superpressure balloon subsystems
Abstract
The NIRVANA facility, set in the Space Environment Department of ONERA-Toulouse, has been developed., by CNES funds, in order to study, in realistic consitions (temperature, absolute and differential pressures, preloading and loading time), the tightness and the mechanical behavior of zero-pressure and super-pressure balloon subsystems like film envelopes, assemblies or apex parts.
- Publication:
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European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research
- Pub Date:
- August 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003ESASP.530..207S
- Keywords:
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- Space Flight: Techniques;
- Instrumentation;
- Ranges