SOFIA ground support facilities

Juergen Wolf

doi:10.1117/12.455097

8 February 2002 SOFIA ground support facilities

Juergen Wolf

Proceedings Volume 4486, Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing IX; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455097
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) will operate from NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. To insure that the observatory's objective of conducting at least 960 successful science flight hours per year will be met, a ground support facility called SOFIA Science and Missions Operation Center (SSMOC) is being developed. This new science institute will be located in an aircraft hangar housing the Boeing 747SP, laboratories supporting the aircraft and its scientific payload, and office space for 80 scientists, engineers, technical support personnel, and the flight crews. The SSMOC will include a mirror coating facility, a pre-flight integration facility for the pre-alignment of science instruments, a system integration laboratory supporting the observatory's software, communications and data acquisition systems, a science data center, and facilities for SOFIA's education and public outreach program. SOFIA and the SSMOC will be jointly operated by the U. S. and German project partners.

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Juergen Wolf "SOFIA ground support facilities", Proc. SPIE 4486, Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing IX, (8 February 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455097

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