Interesting data (Interesting data)ruggi - 18:14 Wednesday 31 August 2011 (30212)
Print this reportWI payload got excitedThis morning at 6:19 UTC a strange event has been detected by the ITF: several lines suddenly appeared in the dark fringe, and then they disappeared with different decay times, as the mechanical resonances of a body use to do when an impulse is transmitted to it.
Among the excited lines, one (14.782 Hz) is certainly identified as the vertical mode of the WI reaction mass.
The excitation was quite small: let's consider that one step of the marionette balancing stepping motor produces a much larger effect.
No particular event has been observed at the level of the ground and suspension sensors, control corrections or the current monitor of the actuators.
It could be interpreted as a mechanical creep of WI payload.