TY - JOUR

T1 - On the design of BECCAL

T2 - 69th International Astronautical Congress: #InvolvingEveryone, IAC 2018

AU - BECCAL-Team

AU - Warner, Marvin

AU - Grosse, Jens

AU - Wärner, Lisa

AU - Henderson, Victoria

AU - Rasel, Ernst

AU - Schleich, Wolfgang

AU - Braxmaier, Claus

N1 - Funding Information: The BECCAL mission (Bose-Einstein-Condensate and Cold Atom Laboratory) is collaboration between the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and the US space agency (NASA). A German payload developer team will design, assemble, integrate, validate and test the instrument. The developer team is a consortium of the following institutes: Leibniz University Hannover, Humboldt University of Berlin, University Ulm, Ferdinand Braun Institute (FBH), German Aerospace Center (DLR), University of Bremen, and University of Mainz has been founded. It is supported by the German Space Agency DLR with funds provided by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) under Grant No. DLR 50WP 1701. The support of all team members and funding agency is highly acknowledged by the authors.

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - The BECCAL (Bose-Einstein-Condensate - Cold Atom Laboratory) apparatus is a high precision quantum optics experiment which will fly on the International Space Station (ISS). It shall be constructed and operated within a bilateral collaboration between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As a multi user facility, BECCAL shall satisfy the needs of both the American and German scientific community concerning cold atom physics. Various needs are expressed for the functionalities of the scientific apparatus extended by the requirements for operation of an instrument aboard the ISS. For installation into the dedicated accommodation the complex systems have to be mechanically and thermally designed to meet these requirements. Additionally BECCAL has to fit into the Size Weight and Power (SWaP) budget given by the launcher and the ISS rack. This paper gives a summary of the project BECCAL and its environment. Furthermore, the mechanical design of the system is presented. A preliminary approach for the Thermal Control System (TCS) of BECCAL is pointed out afterwards. The paper closes with a conclusion and an outlook on the future work for BECCAL.

AB - The BECCAL (Bose-Einstein-Condensate - Cold Atom Laboratory) apparatus is a high precision quantum optics experiment which will fly on the International Space Station (ISS). It shall be constructed and operated within a bilateral collaboration between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As a multi user facility, BECCAL shall satisfy the needs of both the American and German scientific community concerning cold atom physics. Various needs are expressed for the functionalities of the scientific apparatus extended by the requirements for operation of an instrument aboard the ISS. For installation into the dedicated accommodation the complex systems have to be mechanically and thermally designed to meet these requirements. Additionally BECCAL has to fit into the Size Weight and Power (SWaP) budget given by the launcher and the ISS rack. This paper gives a summary of the project BECCAL and its environment. Furthermore, the mechanical design of the system is presented. A preliminary approach for the Thermal Control System (TCS) of BECCAL is pointed out afterwards. The paper closes with a conclusion and an outlook on the future work for BECCAL.

KW - Atom Interferometer

KW - Bose-Einstein Condensate

KW - EXPRESS Rack

KW - International Space Station

KW - Mechanical Design

KW - TCS

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065338892&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Conference article

AN - SCOPUS:85065338892

VL - 2018-October

JO - Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC

JF - Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC

SN - 0074-1795

Y2 - 1 October 2018 through 5 October 2018

ER -