First light of SWAP on-board PROBA2
2010
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academicJournal
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The SWAP telescope (Sun Watcher using Active Pixel System detector and Image Processing) is an instrument launched on 2nd November 2009 on-board the ESA PROBA2 technological mission. SWAP is a space weather sentinel from a low Earth orbit, providing images at 174 nm of the solar corona. The instrument concept has been adapted to the PROBA2 mini-satellite requirements (compactness, low power electronics and a-thermal opto-mechanical system). It also takes advantage of the platform pointing agility, on-board processor, Packetwire interface and autonomous operations. The key component of SWAP is a radiation resistant CMOS-APS detector combined with onboard compression and data prioritization. SWAP has been developed and qualified at the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) and calibrated at the PTB-Bessy facility. After launch, SWAP has provided its first images on 14th November 2009 and started its nominal, scientific phase in February 2010, after 3 months of platform and payload commissioning.This paper summarizes the latest SWAP developments and qualifications, and presents the first light results.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Halain, Jean-Philippe ; Defise, Jean-Marc ; Rochus, Pierre ; Renotte, Etienne ; Thibert, Tanguy ; Mazy, Emmanuel ; Belgian activities are funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO), through the ESA/PRODEX program for the payload instruments., sponsor |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2010 |
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