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A space experiment aimed at determination of quasi-static microaccelerations onboard an artificial satellite of the Earth using video images of the objects executing free motion is considered. The experiment was carried out onboard the Foton M-3 satellite. Several pellets moved in a cubic box fixed on the satellite’s mainframe and having two transparent adjacent walls. Their motion was photographed by a digital video camera. The camera was installed facing one of the transparent walls; a mirror was placed at an angle to another transparent wall. Such an optical system allowed us to have in a single frame two images of the pellets from differing viewpoints. The motion of the pellets was photographed on time intervals lasting 96 s. Pauses between these intervals were also equal to 96 s. A special processing of a separate image allowed us to determine coordinates of the pellet centers in the camera’s coordinate system. The sequence of frames belonging to a continuous interval of photography was processed in the following way. The time dependence of each coordinate of every pellet was approximated by a second degree polynomial using the least squares method. The coefficient of squared time is equal to a half of the corresponding microacceleration component. As has been shown by processing made, the described method of determination of quasi-static microaccelerations turned out to be sufficiently sensitive and accurate.
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Original Russian Text © V.L. Levtov, V.V. Romanov, A.A. Boguslavsky, V.V. Sazonov, S.M. Sokolov, Yu.N. Glotov, 2009, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2009, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 550–561.
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Levtov, V.L., Romanov, V.V., Boguslavsky, A.A. et al. Determination of quasi-static microaccelerations onboard a satellite using video images of moving objects. Cosmic Res 47, 513–524 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952509060070
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