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First light of SWAP on-board PROBA2
Halain, Jean-Philippe; Defise, Jean-Marc; Rochus, Pierre et al.
2010In Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 7732
 

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Keywords :
SWAP; APS-CMOS; PROBA2
Abstract :
[en] 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.
Disciplines :
Aerospace & aeronautics engineering
Author, co-author :
Halain, Jean-Philippe ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Defise, Jean-Marc ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Satellites, missions et instruments spatiaux
Rochus, Pierre  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Renotte, Etienne ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Thibert, Tanguy ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Mazy, Emmanuel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège)
Language :
English
Title :
First light of SWAP on-board PROBA2
Publication date :
2010
Journal title :
Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN :
0277-786X
eISSN :
1996-756X
Publisher :
International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, United States - Washington
Volume :
7732
Funders :
Belgian activities are funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO), through the ESA/PRODEX program for the payload instruments.
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