| Autor: |
Fabrice Champandard, Damien Sucher, Guillaume Briche, Thierry Viard, Bruno Bailly, C. Du Jeu, Christophe Devilliers, F. Falzon, J. B. Ghibaudo, Vincent Costes, Jean-François Blanc |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
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| Zdroj: |
International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2018. |
| DOI: |
10.1117/12.2535927 |
| Popis: |
Thales Alenia Space has been involved in the design and the development of space observation instruments for over 40 years. This paper will explain why active optics is needed for next generation of instruments for Earth observation. We will also describe what kind of solution is preferred and why. We will give an overview of the development status on the associated technologies. Indeed, the future missions will have to deal with better performance, better optical quality while from manufacturing point of view, the total mass, the development schedule and the final cost have to be reduced. These constraints induce a new generation of solutions based on large entrance optics associated to high lightweight ratio which naturally provide solutions sensitive to gravity deformation. In these conditions, the enhancement of the final performance can only be guaranteed by using active optics in flight. A deformable mirror is therefore foreseen to be implemented in future large telescopes in order to correct manufacturing residues, ground/flight evolution including gravity. Moreover, low mass and low cost require more compact designs which entail solutions more sensitive to misalignment. An active positioning mechanism is then also needed in order to correct the telescope alignment during operation conditions. Thales Alenia Space has been selected by CNES to develop and qualify active optics building blocks and then to test and demonstrate the improvement that new active technologies can bring in a full size instrument representative of the next generation of observation instruments. An overview of the current development status and the achievable performances is given. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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