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This work has been supported by Grant PID2021-125325OB-C53 funded by MCIN/AEI, Spain/10.13039/501100011033 and, as appropriate, by "ERDF A way of making Europe" and project 478 Y2020/NMT-6427 OAPES from the programme "Sinergicos 2020" from Comunidad de Madrid (Spain). The authors want to thank all the students, professors, and staff from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid involved in the project and the IDR/UPM, STRAST and ETSIAE for their institutional support.The authors want to acknowledge the REXUS/BEXUS programme, the German Aerospace Center, the Swedish National Space Agency and all the programme partners: the European Space Agency, EuroLaunch, the Swedish Space Corporation and the Mobile Rocket Base. Particularly, authors want to acknowledge the mentorship of Koen De Beule from ESA, the advices of Armelle Frenea-Schmidt from SSC, the work Simon Mawn as the BEXUS 32 payload manager, and all the personnel from Esrange Space Center involved in this launch campaign.
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Perez Alvarez, JavierAutor o CoautorPerez Grande, M. IsabelAutor o CoautorAlvarez Romero, Jose MiguelAutor o CoautorGonzalez-Barcena, DavidAutor (correspondencia)Boado-Cuartero, BlancaAutor o CoautorPérez-Muñoz, ángel-GroverAutor o CoautorFernández-Soler, AlejandroAutor o CoautorRedondo, Juan ManuelAutor o CoautorPorras-Hermoso, AngelAutor o CoautorBarba-Navarrete, PedroAutor o CoautorArroyo-Ruiz, CarlosAutor o CoautorBermejo-Ballesteros, JuanAutor o CoautorAlfonso-Corcuera, DanielAutor o CoautorSoto-Aranaz, ManúAutor o CoautorPeinado, LilianAutor o CoautorDel-Río-Velilla, DanielAutor o CoautorPedraza, AndrésAutor o CoautorMarín-Coca, SergioAutor o CoautorGarcia-Romero, RafaelAutor o CoautorZamorano, JuanAutor o CoautorMalo, JavierAutor o CoautorTorralbo, IgnacioAutor o CoautorPiqueras, JavierAutor o CoautorGarcia-Perez, AndresAutor o CoautorRoibas-Millan, ElenaAutor o CoautorGamazo-Real, Jose -CarlosAutor o CoautorPindado, SantiagoAutor o CoautorSanz-Andres, AngelAutor o CoautorHERCCULES: A university balloon-borne experiment for BEXUS 32 to characterize the thermal environment in the stratosphere using COTS
Publicado en:Acta Astronautica. 220 305-320 - 2024-07-01 220(), DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.04.034
Autores: Gonzalez-Barcena, David; Boado-Cuartero, Blanca; Perez-Munoz, angel-Grover; Fernandez-Soler, Alejandro; Redondo, Juan Manuel; Porras-Hermoso, Angel; Barba-Navarrete, Pedro; Arroyo-Ruiz, Carlos; Alvarez, Jose Miguel; Bermejo-Ballesteros, Juan; Alfonso-Corcuera, Daniel; Merchan-Bravo, Marina; Gomez-Navajas, Carlos; Muela-Marquez, Siro; Martinez-Figueira, Noelia; Benito, Alba; Pena-Capalvo, Adrian; Dorado-Melara, Pablo; Moran-Fernandez, Alvaro; Garrido-Sola, Javier; Montes-Pineda, Pablo; Soto-Aranaz, Manu; Peinado, Lilian; del-Rio-Velilla, Daniel; Pedraza, Andres; Marin-Coca, Sergio; Garcia-Romero, Rafael; Perez-Grande, Isabel; Zamorano, Juan; Malo, Javier; Torralbo, Ignacio; Piqueras, Javier; Garcia-Perez, Andres; Perez-Alvarez, Javier; Roibas-Millan, Elena; Gamazo-Real, Jose -Carlos; Pindado, Santiago; Sanz-Andres, Angel
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The thermal analysis of stratospheric balloon payloads is still a complex task due to the variable thermal environment during the flight phases as well as due to the convective effects during the ascent. An experiment named HERCCULES has been successfully launched from Esrange Space Centre (Kiruna, Sweden) in September 2023 as part of the REXUS/BEXUS programme. This experiment aimed of serving as a heat transfer and thermal environment characterization platform that allow to validate previously developed methodologies for the worstcase thermal environmental conditions' selection and the thermal analysis of these platforms. The experiment has been developed in an academic environment and the design, manufacturing, integration and test activities were mainly performed by Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. students with the mentorship of the European Space Agency. A low-cost design was achieved by using Commercial Off -the -Shelf (COTS) without compromising its performance capabilities. The obtained measurements show a colder behavior of the external elements with regard to the worst -case analysis during the first part of the ascent phase. In addition, radiative fluxes measured during the flight show a deviation in the infrared downward flux of about - 50 W m -2 at 5 km of altitude and a maximum fluctuation of about the 20% in the solar fluxes measurements. Significant advancements have been made for similar missions in terms of mechanical standardization, the use of COTS sensors and electronic components, the improvement of the reliability of the thermal analysis and the development of a software design adhered to standards and recommendations for critical systems.
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el autor responsable de establecer las labores de correspondencia ha sido GONZALEZ BARCENA, DAVID.