COBRA™ Gimbal
Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (AMERGINT)
The COBRA Gimbal is a 3DOF (azimuth, elevation, thrust) pointing mechanism that uses a Canfield Joint carpal-wrist design for precise, full-hemisphere pointing capability.
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- Mass
- 0.276 kg
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Flight heritage
- !
- Cobra-hpx™ mass
- 276 g
- Cobra-hpx™ pointing resolution
- ≥ 276 arc-sec
- Cobra-hpx™ repeatability
- ≤ ± 276 arc-sec
- Cobra-hpx™ stowed footprint
- 113 mm ø
- Cobra-hpx™ stowed height
- 29 mm
- Cobra-uhpx™ mass
- 491 g
- Cobra-uhpx™ pointing resolution
- ≥ 3 arc-sec
- Cobra-uhpx™ repeatability
- ≤ ± 237 arc-sec
- Cobra-uhpx™ stowed footprint
- 165 mm ø
- Cobra-uhpx™ stowed height
- 40 mm
About
The COBRA Gimbal is a 3DOF (azimuth, elevation, thrust) pointing mechanism that implements the Canfield Joint carpal-wrist design to provide precise, full-hemisphere pointing capability. It utilizes a precision-manufactured parallel linkage joint system to achieve high repeatability and high precision with low size, weight, and power (SWaP) impacts. This gimbal provides continuous, singularity-free pointing without inducing cable twist/wrap, and eliminates the need for slip rings. The COBRA Gimbal mechanism can be readily scaled and customized to fulfill specific mission requirements. Two featured models are the COBRA-HPX™ and COBRA-UHPX™.
Documentation
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