Status and mission operations of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat: a probe of star formation feedback from stellar to galactic scales with far-UV imaging spectroscopy

Briana Indahl; Brian Fleming; Dmitry Vorobiev; Dana Chafetz; Jack Williams; Maitland Bowen; Diane Brening; Sanchayeeta Borthakur; Javier Del Hoyo; Destry Dewitt; Adriana Diaz; Abigail Durell; Ben Foehr; Kevin France; Sreejith Gopinathan; John Hennessy; Anne Jaskot; Michael Kaiser; Sydney Koehler; Adam Magruder; Adrian Martin; Stephan McCandliss; John O'Meara; Manuel Quijada; Luis Rodríguez-de Marcos; Michael Rotkowski; Ravi Sankrit; Alex Sico; Oswald H. Siegmund; Daniel Szewczyk; Jason Tumlinson; Stefan Ulrich

doi:10.1117/12.2677737

5 October 2023 Status and mission operations of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat: a probe of star formation feedback from stellar to galactic scales with far-UV imaging spectroscopy

Briana Indahl, Brian Fleming, Dmitry Vorobiev, Dana Chafetz, Jack Williams, Maitland Bowen, Diane Brening, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Javier Del Hoyo, Destry Dewitt, Adriana Diaz, Abigail Durell, Ben Foehr, Kevin France, Sreejith Gopinathan, John Hennessy, Anne Jaskot, Michael Kaiser, Sydney Koehler, Adam Magruder, Adrian Martin, Stephan McCandliss, John O'Meara, Manuel Quijada, Luis Rodríguez-de Marcos, Michael Rotkowski, Ravi Sankrit, Alex Sico, Oswald H. Siegmund, Daniel Szewczyk, Jason Tumlinson, Stefan Ulrich

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Proceedings Volume 12678, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII; 1267806 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677737
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2023, San Diego, California, United States

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The SPRITE (The Supernova remnants, Proxies for Re-Ionization Testbed Experiment) 12U CubeSat mission, funded by NASA and led by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder, will house the first Far-UV (100-175 nm) long-slit spectrograph with access to the Lyman UV (λ ⪅ 115 nm) and sub-arcminute imaging resolution. SPRITE will map the high energy emission from diffuse gas allowing for the study of star formation feedback in a critical, but rarely studied, Far-UV regime on both stellar and galactic scales. This novel capability is enabled by new UV technologies incorporated into SPRITE’s design. These technologies include more robust, high broadband reflectivity mirror coatings and an ultra-low background photon counting microchannel plate detector. The SPRITE science mission includes weekly calibration observations to characterize the performance of these key UV technologies over time, increasing their technology readiness level (TRL) to 7+ and providing flight heritage essential for future UV flagship space missions such as the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Currently, SPRITE is in the beginning stages of integration and testing of its flight assembly with a planned delivery date of fall of 2024. This proceeding will overview the current mission status, the schedule for testing and integration prior to launch, and the planned mission operations for SPRITE.

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Briana Indahl, Brian Fleming, Dmitry Vorobiev, Dana Chafetz, Jack Williams, Maitland Bowen, Diane Brening, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Javier Del Hoyo, Destry Dewitt, Adriana Diaz, Abigail Durell, Ben Foehr, Kevin France, Sreejith Gopinathan, John Hennessy, Anne Jaskot, Michael Kaiser, Sydney Koehler, Adam Magruder, Adrian Martin, Stephan McCandliss, John O'Meara, Manuel Quijada, Luis Rodríguez-de Marcos, Michael Rotkowski, Ravi Sankrit, Alex Sico, Oswald H. Siegmund, Daniel Szewczyk, Jason Tumlinson, and Stefan Ulrich "Status and mission operations of the SPRITE 12U CubeSat: a probe of star formation feedback from stellar to galactic scales with far-UV imaging spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 12678, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII, 1267806 (5 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677737

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