SPARCS payload assembly, integration, and test update

Paul A. Scowen; Evgenya L. Shkolnik; David Ardila; Logan Jensen; Johnathan Gamaunt; Shouleh Nikzad; April Jewell; Jim Austin; Matthew Beasley; Travis Barman; Judd Bowman; Varoujan Gorjian; Dawn Gregory; Daniel C. Jacobs; Joe Llama; Mary Knapp; Victoria Meadows; Sarah Peacock; Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa; Mark Swain; Peter Vedder; Lisa Whelan; Robert Zellem

doi:10.1117/12.2562582

SPARCS payload assembly, integration, and test update

Paul A. Scowen, Evgenya L. Shkolnik, David Ardila, Logan Jensen, Johnathan Gamaunt, Shouleh Nikzad, April Jewell, Jim Austin, Matthew Beasley, Travis Barman, Judd Bowman, Varoujan Gorjian, Dawn Gregory, Daniel C. Jacobs, Joe Llama, Mary Knapp, Victoria Meadows, Sarah Peacock, Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa, Mark SwainPeter Vedder, Lisa Whelan, Robert Zellem

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Abstract

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a 6U CubeSat under construction that is devoted to the photometric monitoring of M stars in the far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV), to measure the time-dependent spectral slope, intensity and evolution of low-mass star high-energy radiation. We report on the progress made in the assembly, integration and test of the instrument payload at Arizona State University using a custom TVAC chamber and optical stimulus that provides calibration light sources and the custom contamination control environment that the FUV demands. The payload consists of a custom 90mm clear aperture telescope developed by Hexagon/Sigma Space, combined with a dichroic plate to separate the FUV and NUV beams developed by Teledyne Acton and Materion, married with twin focal plane array cameras separately optimized for their bandpasses as developed by JPL.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Editors	Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510636750
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562582
State	Published - 2020
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Dec 14 2020 → Dec 18 2020

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11444

Conference

Conference	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	12/14/20 → 12/18/20

Keywords

Cubesat
Exoplanets
FUV
Flares
M-class Stars
NUV
UV CCDs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Scowen, P. A., Shkolnik, E. L., Ardila, D., Jensen, L., Gamaunt, J., Nikzad, S., Jewell, A., Austin, J., Beasley, M., Barman, T., Bowman, J., Gorjian, V., Gregory, D., Jacobs, D. C., Llama, J., Knapp, M., Meadows, V., Peacock, S., Ramiaramanantsoa, T., ... Zellem, R. (2020). SPARCS payload assembly, integration, and test update. In J.-W. A. den Herder, S. Nikzad, & K. Nakazawa (Eds.), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 114440A (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11444). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562582

SPARCS payload assembly, integration, and test update. / Scowen, Paul A.; Shkolnik, Evgenya L.; Ardila, David et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. ed. / Jan-Willem A. den Herder; Shouleh Nikzad; Kazuhiro Nakazawa. SPIE, 2020. 114440A (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11444).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Scowen, PA, Shkolnik, EL, Ardila, D, Jensen, L, Gamaunt, J, Nikzad, S, Jewell, A, Austin, J, Beasley, M, Barman, T , Bowman, J, Gorjian, V, Gregory, D, Jacobs, DC, Llama, J, Knapp, M, Meadows, V, Peacock, S, Ramiaramanantsoa, T, Swain, M, Vedder, P, Whelan, L & Zellem, R 2020, SPARCS payload assembly, integration, and test update. in J-WA den Herder, S Nikzad & K Nakazawa (eds), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray., 114440A, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 11444, SPIE, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Virtual, Online, United States, 12/14/20. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562582

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