Charge-coupled device camera for the Galileo Jupiter Orbiter spacecraftA slow-scan television camera called the solid-state imaging subsystem (SSI), built for the Galileo Jupiter Orbiter, is described. The SSI consists of a 1500-mm focal-length telescope coupled to a camera head housing a 800 x 800-element charge-coupled device (CCD) detector based on 'virtual-phase' charge transfer technology. The CCD detector provides broadband sensitivity over 100 times that of a comparable vidicon-tube camera, while also yielding improved resolution, linearity, geometric fidelity, and spectral range. The system noise floor is 30 electrons, which results in a dynamic range of about 3500. Saturation of the detector with 9000-A light, followed by a high-speed erasure cycle prior to exposing each image, stabilizes the detector quantum efficiency at its maximum level for wavelengths beyond 7000 A. An optical schematic diagram of the SSI is included.
Document ID
19860034806
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Klaasen, K. P. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Clary, M. C. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Janesick, J. R. (California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States)