L3Harris (United Kingdom)

View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-1880.vid Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC) designed the CSD to be a more secure, predictable, and consistent CubeSat deployment system. The goal of this research paper is to describe analytical model tuning efforts using experimental data collected from three sources: (1) PSC’s microgravity deployment tests onboard a C9 aircraft in 2014; (2) AFIT led lab bench experiments in 2016-2017; and (3) AFRLAFIT led tests at NASA Glenn Research Center’s (GRC’s) microgravity drop tower in 2017. This paper also presents evaluations of model prediction performance against the various data sets along with discussions on which experimental data sources yields the best tuned analytical model.