Development of ASPIICS: a coronagraph based on Proba-3 formation flying mission

Damien Galano; Alessandro Bemporad; Steve Buckley; Ileana Cernica; Vladimír Dániel; François Denis; Lieve de Vos; Silvano Fineschi; Camille Galy; Rafal Graczyk; Petra Horodyska; Jérôme Jacob; Richard Jansen; Nektarios Kranitis; Michal Kurowski; Michal Ladno; Philippe Ledent; Davide Loreggia; Radek Melich; Dominique Mollet; Michal Mosdorf; Antonios Paschalis; Radek Peresty; Munizer Purica; Bartlomiej Radzik; Miroslaw Rataj; Raphaël Rougeot; Lucas Salvador; Cédric Thizy; Jorg Versluys; Tomasz Walczak; Alicja Zarzycka; Joe Zender; Andrei Zhukov

doi:10.1117/12.2312493

6 July 2018 Development of ASPIICS: a coronagraph based on Proba-3 formation flying mission

Damien Galano, Alessandro Bemporad, Steve Buckley, Ileana Cernica, Vladimír Dániel, François Denis, Lieve de Vos, Silvano Fineschi, Camille Galy, Rafal Graczyk, Petra Horodyska, Jérôme Jacob, Richard Jansen, Nektarios Kranitis, Michal Kurowski, Michal Ladno, Philippe Ledent, Davide Loreggia, Radek Melich, Dominique Mollet, Michal Mosdorf, Antonios Paschalis, Radek Peresty, Munizer Purica, Bartlomiej Radzik, Miroslaw Rataj, Raphaël Rougeot, Lucas Salvador, Cédric Thizy, Jorg Versluys, Tomasz Walczak, Alicja Zarzycka, Joe Zender, Andrei Zhukov

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Proceedings Volume 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 106982Y (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312493
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

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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 ~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.

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Damien Galano, Alessandro Bemporad, Steve Buckley, Ileana Cernica, Vladimír Dániel, François Denis, Lieve de Vos, Silvano Fineschi, Camille Galy, Rafal Graczyk, Petra Horodyska, Jérôme Jacob, Richard Jansen, Nektarios Kranitis, Michal Kurowski, Michal Ladno, Philippe Ledent, Davide Loreggia, Radek Melich, Dominique Mollet, Michal Mosdorf, Antonios Paschalis, Radek Peresty, Munizer Purica, Bartlomiej Radzik, Miroslaw Rataj, Raphaël Rougeot, Lucas Salvador, Cédric Thizy, Jorg Versluys, Tomasz Walczak, Alicja Zarzycka, Joe Zender, and Andrei Zhukov "Development of ASPIICS: a coronagraph based on Proba-3 formation flying mission", Proc. SPIE 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 106982Y (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312493

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