Astronomy and Astrophysics; Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Abstract :
[en] PROBA-3 is an ESA Mission whose aim is to demonstrate the in-orbit Formation Flying and attitude control capabilities of its two satellites by means of closed-loop, on-board metrology. The two small spacecraft will form a giant externally occulted coronagraph that will observe in visible polarized light the inner part of the solar corona. The SPS subsystem is composed of eight sensors that will measure, with the required sensitivity and dynamic range, the penumbra light intensity around the coronagraph instrument entrance pupil.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Noce, V.; INAF, Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory -, Florence, Italy ; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Romoli, M.; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Focardi, M.; INAF, Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory -, Florence, Italy
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Renotte E. et al., ASPIICS: an externally occulted coronagraph for PROBA-3. Design evolution Proc. of SPIE, 9143 (2014) 91432M
Focardi M. et al., Formation Flying Metrology for the ESA-PROBA3 Mission: The Shadow Position Sensors (SPS) silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) readout electronics Proc. of SPIE, 9604 (2015) 96040D-1
Noce V. et al., An improved version of the Shadow Position Sensor readout electronics on-board the ESA PROBA-3 Mission Proc. of SPIE, 10397 (2017) 103971B
Bemporad A. et al., The Shadow Positioning Sensors (SPS) for Formation Flying Metrology on-board the ESA PROBA-3 Mission Proc. of SPIE, 9604 (2015) 96040C-1
