ASPIICS: an externally occulted coronagraph for PROBA-3. Design evolution

Autor: Renotte, Etienne Baston, Elena Carmen Bemporad, Alessandro and Capobianco, Gerardo Cernica, Ileana Darakchiev, Radoslav and Denis, Francois Desselle, Richard de Vos, Lieve Fineschi, Silvano Focardi, Mauro Gorski, Tomasz Graczyk, Rafal and Halain, Jean-Philippe Hermans, Aline Jackson, Carl and Kintziger, Christian Kosiec, Jacek Kranitis, Nektarios and Landini, Federico Ledl, Vit Massone, Giuseppe Mazzoli, Alexandra Melich, Radek Mollet, Dominique Mosdorf, Michal and Nicolini, Gianalfredo Nicula, Bogdan Orleanski, Piotr and Palau, Marie-Catherine Pancrazzi, Maurizio Paschalis, Antonis and Peresty, Radek Plesseria, Jean-Yves Rataj, Miroslaw and Romoli, Marco Thizy, Cedric Thome, Michel Tsinganos, Kanaris and Wodnicki, Ryszard Walczak, Tomasz Zhukov, Andrei
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
Popis: PROBA-3 is a mission devoted to the in-orbit demonstration of precise formation flying techniques and technologies for future ESA missions. PROBA-3 will fly ASPIICS (Association de Satellites pour l’Imagerie et l’Interferometrie de la Couronne Solaire) as primary payload, which makes use of the formation flying technique to form a giant coronagraph capable of producing a nearly perfect eclipse allowing to observe the sun corona closer to the rim than ever before. The coronagraph is distributed over two satellites flying in formation (approx. 150m apart). The so called Coronagraph Satellite carries the camera and the so called Occulter Satellite carries the sun occulter disc. This paper is reviewing the design and evolution of the ASPIICS instrument as at the beginning of Phase C/D.
Databáze: OpenAIRE