TY - GEN
T1 - Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) science payload assembly, integration, and testing plan
AU - Jensen, Logan
AU - Gamaunt, Johnathan
AU - Scowen, Paul
AU - Beasley, Matthew
AU - Austin, Jim
AU - Veach, Todd
AU - Shkolnik, Evgenya
AU - Struebel, Nathaniel
AU - Jacobs, Daniel
AU - Bowman, Judd
AU - Ramiaramanantsoa, Tahina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a 6U CubeSat mission focused on dual channel, SPARCS far-UV (153-171 nm) and near-UV (260-300 nm), photometric monitoring of nearby M-stars. These data will advance our understanding of the typical day-to-day UV environments around M stars and how these conditions evolve over the stars’ multibillion-year lifespans; critical factors that constrain the potential habitability of planets orbiting M stars, informing the search for life in the galaxy. This paper lays out the detailed plan for the SPARCS science payload assembly, integration, and testing (AIT), including the optical calibration and performance measurement methods for the science telescope, thermal vacuum bakeouts for part cleaning, ongoing contamination monitoring methods, and spectral performance measurements of the assembled payload camera. We will provide updates on AIT proceedings at ASU and the SPARCS Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVAC) test facility built for UV CubeSat missions at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration.
AB - The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a 6U CubeSat mission focused on dual channel, SPARCS far-UV (153-171 nm) and near-UV (260-300 nm), photometric monitoring of nearby M-stars. These data will advance our understanding of the typical day-to-day UV environments around M stars and how these conditions evolve over the stars’ multibillion-year lifespans; critical factors that constrain the potential habitability of planets orbiting M stars, informing the search for life in the galaxy. This paper lays out the detailed plan for the SPARCS science payload assembly, integration, and testing (AIT), including the optical calibration and performance measurement methods for the science telescope, thermal vacuum bakeouts for part cleaning, ongoing contamination monitoring methods, and spectral performance measurements of the assembled payload camera. We will provide updates on AIT proceedings at ASU and the SPARCS Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVAC) test facility built for UV CubeSat missions at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration.
KW - AIT
KW - Contamination Control
KW - CubeSats
KW - Far-Ultraviolet Instrumentation
KW - Near-Ultraviolet Instrumentation
KW - SPARCS
KW - Telescopes
KW - Thermal vacuum testing
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2629562
DO - 10.1117/12.2629562
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85140460633
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022
A2 - den Herder, Jan-Willem A.
A2 - Nikzad, Shouleh
A2 - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
PB - SPIE
T2 - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Y2 - 17 July 2022 through 22 July 2022
ER -