Design, Testing and Reliability Analysis of Command and Data Handling (C&DH) Subsystem for the Tropospheric Water and Cloud Ice (Twice) Instrument for a 6U-Class Small Satellite
| Autor: | Jonathan H. Jiang, Yuriy Goncharenko, R. E. Cofield, Steven C. Reising, Anders Skalare, Erich Schlecht, Sharmila Padmanabhan, Mehmet Ogut, Shannon Brown, Pekka Kangaslahti, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, William R. Deal, Alex Zamora, Braxton Kilmer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Radiometer
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Group method of data handling business.industry Cloud computing 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Troposphere Noise Data acquisition Environmental science Satellite business Water vapor 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Remote sensing |
| Zdroj: | IGARSS |
| DOI: | 10.1109/igarss.2018.8517952 |
| Popis: | The Tropospheric Water and Cloud ICE (TWICE) millimeter and sub-millimeter radiometer instrument is being developed to enable global observations of upper tropospheric/lower-stratospheric water vapor and ice particle size distribution in clouds. Global observations using the TWICE instrument are critically needed to reduce uncertainties in weather and climate models. A low-noise, power-efficient command and data handling (C&DH) subsystem has been designed and tested to control TWICE data acquisition and other subsystems. Considering the limited power resources available on such platforms, a highly-efficient power regulation board has been designed to minimize power losses and reduce system noise. Furthermore, heavy-ion radiation testing has been performed for some critical commercial-off-the-shelf components to analyze radiation tolerance in low-Earth orbit. The C&DH prototype board meets the functional, noise and size, weight and power (SWaP) requirements for deployment on a 6U -Class satellite. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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