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Facility for Liquid Experimentation and Verification in Orbit FLEVO
Facility for Liquid Experimentation and Verification in Orbit FLEVO

Objective

Sloshsat FLEVO is a small free-flying spacecraft that will be ejected from a Hitchhiker-C facility on the US Space Shuttle. It is primarily designed for the investigation of forces exerted upon a manoeuvring spacecraft by liquid slosh in a partially filled tank.

Context

Simulation of the spacecraft dynamics and preparation of the control laws is performed with the Sloshsat Motion Simulator (SMS). SMS is an original development from NLR and is operated in the EuroSim environment.

The Sloshsat FLEVO development is performed in the framework of the ESA Technology Development Programme (TDP) Phase 2 and the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes (NIVR) Research and Technology (NRT) programme.
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