Conveners
Thermal Testing
- Arthur Dunlop (ESA (ESTEC))
Thermal Testing
- Gunnar Sieber (European Space Agency)
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, a joint venture between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, aims to investigate the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere. This presentation details the spacecraft’s environmental verification campaign, with a focus on the thermal vacuum (TVAC) test conducted in ESA’s Large Space Simulator (LSS)...
PROBA-3 is an ESA mission designed to demonstrate high-precision formation flying using two spacecraft flying in close configuration to form a large-scale solar coronagraph. The industrial development of the mission is led by SENER Aerospace (Spain) for ESA, coordinating a consortium involving 14 ESA Member States and Canada. Key partners include Redwire Space (Belgium), in charge of the...
The Wide Field Imager (WFI), one of two instruments aboard the NewATHENA X-ray space telescope, includes a Camera Head comprising a large detector array and a Fast Detector (FD). Both utilize Depleted P-channel Field Effect Transistor (DEPFET) sensors with identical pixel sizes and technology. The large array consists of four quadrants, each containing a DEPFET sensor, while the smaller FD...
PLACEHOLDER FOR EDOARDO MARIA BENIVEGNA
The Fluorescence Imaging Spectrometer (FLORIS) is the Instrument of the FLuorescence EXplorer
Mission (FLEX). This is the Earth Explorer 8 (EE8) mission of European Space Agency, whose
objective is to perform quantitative measurements of the solar induced vegetation fluorescence to
monitor vegetation photosynthetic activity.
The FLORIS...
A thermal instrumentation study has been conducted for the 6 Tonne Large Space Test Chamber Loading Trolley housed at RAL Space. The loading trolley is a novel piece of equipment designed to suspend the Item Under Test in the chamber. Although the design of the trolley intrinsically minimises the conductive heat flow path to the IUT through the use of an insulating GFRP spacer at the...
The CHIME (Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment) mission is a key component of the European Union’s Earth Observation program, Copernicus. The mission consists of two satellites carrying a unique payload designed to provide routine hyperspectral observations. To perform these observations, the instrument’s three focal planes will be cooled down to 175 K. The cooling of...
IABG has developed, built and commissioned a new large Thermal Vacuum Facility (TVA), which serves as the heart of its Competence Centre Optics (CCO). As a second core element of the CCO, IABG has also procured Optical Ground Support Equipment (OGSE), which can be made available to customers for dedicated test campaigns. Together, TVA and OGSE enable IABG and its space clients to carry out...
