Abstract

Some small scientific satellites can be regarded as free, multi-body, supercritical and statorless rotors. Classical rotordynamics does not cover the dynamic behaviour and the stability analysis of such rotating systems, being focused on fixed rotors. Attitude dynamics usually deals with single rigid spacecrafts, sometimes equipped with flexible appendices like solar arrays or antennas. The case of the Galileo Galilei Ground (GGG) test facility is herewith analyzed through a numerical and experimental investigation on the dynamic behaviour of a fixed multi-body fast-spinning rotor in order to validate the design approach proposed for Galileo Galilei (GG) spacecraft.

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