TY - GEN
T1 - Status and mission operations of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat
T2 - UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII 2023
AU - Indahl, Briana
AU - Fleming, Brian
AU - Vorobiev, Dmitry
AU - Chafetz, Dana
AU - Williams, Jack
AU - Bowen, Maitland
AU - Brening, Diane
AU - Borthakur, Sanchayeeta
AU - Del Hoyo, Javier
AU - Dewitt, Destry
AU - Diaz, Adriana
AU - Durell, Abigail
AU - Foehr, Ben
AU - France, Kevin
AU - Gopinathan, Sreejith
AU - Hennessy, John
AU - Jaskot, Anne
AU - Kaiser, Michael
AU - Koehler, Sydney
AU - Magruder, Adam
AU - Martin, Adrian
AU - McCandliss, Stephan
AU - O’Meara, John
AU - Quijada, Manuel
AU - Rodríguez-De Marcos, Luis
AU - Rotkowski, Michael
AU - Sankrit, Ravi
AU - Sico, Alex
AU - Siegmund, Oswald H.
AU - Szewczyk, Daniel
AU - Tumlison, Jason
AU - Ulrich, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 SPIE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The SPRITE (The Supernova remnants, Proxies for ReIonization Testbed Experiment) 12U CubeSat mission, funded by NASA and led by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder, will house the first Far-UV (100-175 nm) long-slit spectrograph with access to the Lyman UV (λ < 115 nm) and sub-arcminute imaging resolution. SPRITE will map the high energy emission from diffuse gas allowing for the study of star formation feedback in a critical, but rarely studied, Far-UV regime on both stellar and galactic scales. This novel capability is enabled by new UV technologies incorporated into SPRITE’s design. These technologies include more robust, high broadband reflectivity mirror coatings and an ultra-low background photon counting microchannel plate detector. The SPRITE science mission includes weekly calibration observations to characterize the performance of these key UV technologies over time, increasing their technology readiness level (TRL) to 7+ and providing flight heritage essential for future UV flagship space missions such as the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Currently, SPRITE is in the beginning stages of integration and testing of its flight assembly with a planned delivery date of fall of 2024. This proceeding will overview the current mission status, the schedule for testing and integration prior to launch, and the planned mission operations for SPRITE.
AB - The SPRITE (The Supernova remnants, Proxies for ReIonization Testbed Experiment) 12U CubeSat mission, funded by NASA and led by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder, will house the first Far-UV (100-175 nm) long-slit spectrograph with access to the Lyman UV (λ < 115 nm) and sub-arcminute imaging resolution. SPRITE will map the high energy emission from diffuse gas allowing for the study of star formation feedback in a critical, but rarely studied, Far-UV regime on both stellar and galactic scales. This novel capability is enabled by new UV technologies incorporated into SPRITE’s design. These technologies include more robust, high broadband reflectivity mirror coatings and an ultra-low background photon counting microchannel plate detector. The SPRITE science mission includes weekly calibration observations to characterize the performance of these key UV technologies over time, increasing their technology readiness level (TRL) to 7+ and providing flight heritage essential for future UV flagship space missions such as the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Currently, SPRITE is in the beginning stages of integration and testing of its flight assembly with a planned delivery date of fall of 2024. This proceeding will overview the current mission status, the schedule for testing and integration prior to launch, and the planned mission operations for SPRITE.
KW - CubeSat
KW - Spectroscopy
KW - Ultraviolet
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2677737
DO - 10.1117/12.2677737
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85176257083
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII
A2 - Siegmund, Oswald H.
A2 - Hoadley, Keri
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 20 August 2023 through 22 August 2023
ER -