First light of SWAP on-board PROBA2

Jean-Philippe Halain; David Berghmans; Jean-Marc Defise; Etienne Renotte; Tanguy Thibert; Emmanuel Mazy; Pierre Rochus; Bogdan Nicula; Anik De Groof; Dan Seaton; Udo Schühle

doi:10.1117/12.857979

29 July 2010 First light of SWAP on-board PROBA2

Jean-Philippe Halain, David Berghmans, Jean-Marc Defise, Etienne Renotte, Tanguy Thibert, Emmanuel Mazy, Pierre Rochus, Bogdan Nicula, Anik De Groof, Dan Seaton, Udo Schühle

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Proceedings Volume 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 77320P (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857979
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

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 PTBBessy 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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Jean-Philippe Halain, David Berghmans, Jean-Marc Defise, Etienne Renotte, Tanguy Thibert, Emmanuel Mazy, Pierre Rochus, Bogdan Nicula, Anik De Groof, Dan Seaton, and Udo Schühle "First light of SWAP on-board PROBA2", Proc. SPIE 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 77320P (29 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857979

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