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JWST Test Bed Telescope Actuator Assemblies

 

JWST Testbed Actuator Assy

  • Fabrication, Assembly, and Testing of Test Bed Telescope Actuators for the James Webb Space Telescope Program

  • Designed by Ball Aerospace, more info here: Aviation Week and Space Technology

  • Design Review, Statement of Work, Test Readiness Review

  • Created mfg plan, assy documentation, test bench, and weekly status reports

  • 17 Machined components, 36 purchased parts, and 6 Subassemblies

  • Assembled complete in-house

  • Test and Collect Data per SOW including:

    • Adjust fine range of motion (within .00029-.00033")

    • Run in (300 PPS and 230 mA, keeping micromo motors below 70º C)

    • Axial Stiffness (>0.35 N/micrometer)

    • Tensile Axial Stiffness (>0.15 N/micrometer)

    • Unloaded Pull-in current (180 mA max)

    • Full range of motion

    • All data automatically recorded into spreadsheet and serialized

  • All 150 actuators delivered on time to Ball Aerospace

Flight Air Compressor Pallet Assembly

  Airborne Laser (ABL) main assembly  

  • CSA Engineering partnered with Next Intent

  • Next Intent solid modeled assembly including 2900+ parts

  • Manufactured 500+ parts, 120 different part numbers

  • Supporting project illustrated at left

  • Additional information here from CSA Engineering

  
Northrop Grumman's high-energy laser for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser is comprised of six modules shown here. Officially known as the Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL), the modules were installed inside a scrap 747 fuselage in the System Integration Lab (SIL) at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The view is looking down the center of the aisle formed by the V-6 configuration of the laser layout. USAF Photo

Mars Rover Wheels for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Wheels at JPL
  • Designed by JPL
  • Wheels measure about 10" diameter x 6.25" wide
  • Each started as 54 lbs of 7075 Aluminum and finished at 2.25 lbs
  • 25 hours of machine time per wheel

  • All 54 wheels delivered on time to JPL

Articles detailing the Rover Wheel project:
  3 Rovers Wheel evolution Cutaway view Programming ID profile with flat Hub detail
Inside view OD milling of tread Finish machined wheel Rover assembly at JPL

Dart Hexapod Assembly

 

Dart Hexapod for JPL
  • Designed by CSA Engineering
     
  • Components Mfg by Next Intent
     
  • Delivered to Jet Propulsion Laboratory

 

Sample Machined Parts and Sub-Assemblies

 Aluminum, Titanium, Stainless Titanium and Stainless Aerospace flight parts Military, Electronics, Semiconductor High Vacuum SS Precision milling Electronics chassis (Flight) Chassis ID detail Electronics chassis 2 Impeller and Titanium strut ISS Radiator ISS Radiator 2 Complex milling PET (plastic) More plastic Robotics and Aerospace Titanium Strut  Air Bearings for Airborne Based Laser Airborne Based Laser (ABL) parts Finished air tanks for Airborne Based Laser Airborne Based Laser tank sub-assemblies Airborne Based Laser sub-assembly Airborne Based Laser sub-assy Airborne Based Laser sub-assy Raytheon Laser Precipitator assy Raytheon Laser Precipitator assy Assembly fixture TRW Space Based Laser prototype TRW Space Based Laser prototype JPL satellite components 2003 Mars Rover Titanium suspension components Mars Lander Arm (Batwing)

 

 

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