The role of bearing and scan mechanism life testing in the flight qualification of the MODIS instrument

TriboTest

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 139-156

  VanDyk, Steven G ^a   Dietz, Brian J ^b   Street, Kenneth W ^c   Jones Jr , William R ^c   Jansen, Mark J ^d   Dube, Michael J ^e   Sharma, Rajeev K ^f   Predmore, Roamer E ^f  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^b MOOG INC   (United States)

^c NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d AYT Corporation   (United States)

^e Nye Lubricants Inc   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bearings; Flight qualification; Life testing; MODIS; Scan motor mechanism

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); DEGRADATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LUBRICANTS; MECHANICAL TESTING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

DISASSEMBLED BEARINGS; FLIGHT QUALIFICATION; LIFE TESTING; LUBRICANT DEGRADATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SCAN MOTOR MECHANISM; VISCOUS LUBRICANT DEPOSITS;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0036967249     PISSN: 13544063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tt.3020090206     Document Type: Article

References (1)

1. Dietz, B.J., VanDyk, S.G., and Predmore, R.E., 'Earth scanner bearing accelerated life test', paper presented at 34th Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium, May 2000, pp. 303-16.