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An efficient method for preliminary launcher/satellite coupled loads analysis by satellite developers using launcher user’s manual data

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This paper presents a method used over the years by the authors in performing preliminary launcher/satellite coupled loads analysis (CLA) using in an innovative manner the quasi-static design loads defined in the launcher user’s manual (LUM). The rationale and the value of the approach are addressed first. Subsequently the use of the method is presented, and the results derived by satellite developers using the proposed preliminary launcher/satellite CLA are compared with preliminary or full CLA results performed by launcher authorities for a number of industrial satellite applications.

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  1. TEC-M, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    Constantinos Stavrinidis & Sebastiaan Fransen

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Stavrinidis, C., Fransen, S. An efficient method for preliminary launcher/satellite coupled loads analysis by satellite developers using launcher user’s manual data. CEAS Space J 8, 13–21 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12567-015-0103-3

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