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Development of a dynamical model of a release mechanism for in-flight performance prediction

Dalla Ricca, Edoardo; Bortoluzzi, Daniele; Vignotto, Davide +1 more

LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was an ESA mission which was launched to test the most relevant technologies for the forthcoming mission, named LISA, which will be the first gravitational wave observer in space. The LPF payload includes two gravitational reference sensors, each one containing the sensing body of the experiment, i.e. a cubic-shaped test-mass…