Cassini spacecraft force limited vibration testing

S V Sound and Vibration

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 16-20

  Chang, Kurng Y ^a   Scharton, Terry D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; FORCE MEASUREMENT; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MACHINE VIBRATIONS;

FORCE LIMITED VERTICAL AXIS RANDOM VIBRATION TESTS;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0032022160     PISSN: 00381810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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