TY - CONF
TI - Development of ASPIICS: a coronagraph based on Proba-3 formation flying
mission
AU - Galano, Damien
AU - Bemporad, Alessandro
AU - Buckley, Steve
AU - Cernica,
AU - Ileana
AU - Daniel, Vladimir
AU - Denis, Francois
AU - de Vos, Lieve and
AU - Fineschi, Silvano
AU - Galy, Camille
AU - Graczyk, Rafal
AU - Horodyska,
AU - Petra
AU - Jacob, Jerome
AU - Jansen, Richard
AU - Kranitis, Nektarios and
AU - Kurowski, Michal
AU - Ladno, Michal
AU - Ledent, Philippe
AU - Loreggia,
AU - Davide
AU - Melich, Radek
AU - Mollet, Dominique
AU - Mosdorf, Michal and
AU - Paschalis, Antonios
AU - Peresty, Radek
AU - Purica, Munizer
AU - Radzik,
AU - Bartlomiej
AU - Rataj, Miroslaw
AU - Rougeot, Raphael
AU - Salvador, Lucas
AU - and Thizy, Cedric
AU - Versluys, Jorg
AU - Walczak, Tomasz
AU - Zarzycka,
AU - Alicja
AU - Zender, Joe
AU - Zhukov, Andrei
PY - 2018
SP - null
PB - SPIE - INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
T2 - SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2018: OPTICAL, INFRARED, AND
MILLIMETER WAVE
TODO - 10.1117/12.2312493
TODO - PROBA-3; ASPIICS; solar physics; coronagraph; formation flying; in-orbit
demonstration
TODO - This paper presents the recent achievements in the development of
ASPIICS (Association of Spacecraft for Polarimetric and Imaging
Investigation of the Corona of the Sun), a solar coronagraph that is the
primary payload of ESA's formation flying in-orbit demonstration mission
PROBA-3. The PROBA-3 Coronagraph System is designed as a classical
externally occulted Lyot coronagraph but it takes advantage of the
opportunity to place the 1.4 meter wide external occulter on a companion
spacecraft, about 150m apart, to perform high resolution imaging of the
inner corona of the Sun as close as similar to 1.1 solar radii. Besides
providing scientific data, ASPIICS is also equipped with sensors for
providing relevant navigation data to the Formation Flying GNC system.
This paper is reviewing the recent development status of the ASPIICS
instrument as it passed CDR, following detailed design of all the
sub-systems and testing of STM and various Breadboard models.
ASPIICS is built by a large European consortium including about 20
partners from 7 countries under the auspices of the European Space
Agency.
ER -