1. LTP – LISA technology package: Development challenges of a spaceborne fundamental physics experiment
- Author
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R Gerndt and the entire LTP Team
- Subjects
History ,Attitude control system ,Engineering ,Spacecraft ,business.industry ,Payload ,Electrical engineering ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Pathfinder ,Software ,Fundamental physics ,Systems engineering ,business - Abstract
The LISA Technology Package (LTP) is the main payload onboard the LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft. The LTP Instrument together with the Drag-Free Attitude Control System (DFACS) and the respective LTP and DFACS operational software forms the LTP Experiment. It is completed by the FEEPs of the LPF spacecraft that are controlled by DFACS in order to control the spacecraft's attitude along with the experiment's needs. This article concentrates on aspects of the Industrial development of the LTP Instrument items and on essential performance issues of LTP. Examples of investigations on specific issue will highlight the kind of special problems to be solved for LTP in close cooperation with the Scientific Community.
- Published
- 2009