Pluto integrated camera spectrometer (PICS) instrument

Patricia M. Beauchamp; Robert H. Brown; Carl F. Bruce Jr.; Gun-Shing Chen; Michael Chrisp; George A. Fraschetti; Timothy N. Krabach; Stanley Walter Petrick; David H. Rodgers; J. Rodriguez; Stanley L. Soll; Arthur H. Vaughan; Laurence A. Soderblom; Bill R. Sandel; Roger V. Yelle

doi:10.1117/12.177666

8 June 1994 Pluto integrated camera spectrometer (PICS) instrument

Patricia M. Beauchamp, Robert H. Brown, Carl F. Bruce Jr., Gun-Shing Chen, Michael Chrisp, George A. Fraschetti, Timothy N. Krabach, Stanley Walter Petrick, David H. Rodgers, J. Rodriguez, Stanley L. Soll, Arthur H. Vaughan, Laurence A. Soderblom, Bill R. Sandel, Roger V. Yelle

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Proceedings Volume 2214, Space Instrumentation and Dual-Use Technologies; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177666
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1994, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

We describe an integrated instrument that will perform the functions of three optical instruments required by a Pluto Fast Flyby mission: a near-IR spectrometer (256 spectral channels, 1300 - 2600 nm), a two-channel imaging camera (300 - 500 nm, 500 - 1000 nm), and a UV spectrometer (160 spectral channels, 70 - 150 nm). A separate port, aligned in a direction compatible with radio occultation experiments, is provided for measurement of a UV solar occultation and for spectral radiance calibration of the IR and visible subsystems. Our integrated approach minimizes mass and power use, and promotes the adoption of integrated observational sequences and power management to ensure compatible duty cycles for data acquisition, compression, and storage. From flight mission experience, we believe the integrated approach will yield substantial cost savings in design, integration, and sequence planning. The integrated payload inherently provides a cohesive mission data set, optimized for correlative analysis. A breadboard version of the instrument is currently being built and is expected to be fully functional be late summer.

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Patricia M. Beauchamp, Robert H. Brown, Carl F. Bruce Jr., Gun-Shing Chen, Michael Chrisp, George A. Fraschetti, Timothy N. Krabach, Stanley Walter Petrick, David H. Rodgers, J. Rodriguez, Stanley L. Soll, Arthur H. Vaughan, Laurence A. Soderblom, Bill R. Sandel, and Roger V. Yelle "Pluto integrated camera spectrometer (PICS) instrument", Proc. SPIE 2214, Space Instrumentation and Dual-Use Technologies, (8 June 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177666

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