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Digital solar edge tracker for the Halogen Occultation ExperimentThe optical and electronic design of the Halogen Occultation Experiment (Haloe) elevation sun sensor is described. The Haloe instrument is a gas-correlation radiometer now being developed at NASA Langley for the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. The system uses a Galilean telescope to form a solar image on a linear silicon photodiode array. The array is a self-scanned monolithic CCD. The addresses of both solar edges imaged on the array are used by the control/pointing system to scan the Haloe science instantaneous field of view (IFOV) across the vertical solar diameter during instrument calibration and then to maintain the science IFOV 4 arcmin below the top edge during the science data occultation event. Vertical resolution of 16 arcsec and a radiometric dynamic range of 100 are achieved at the 700-nm operating wavelength. The design provides for loss of individual photodiode elements without loss of angular tracking capability.
Document ID
19870057626
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Mauldin, L. E., III
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Moore, A. S.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Stump, C. W.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Mayo, L. S.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 1987
Publication Information
Publication: Optical Engineering
Volume: 26
ISSN: 0091-3286
Subject Category
Spacecraft Instrumentation
Accession Number
87A44900
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS1-15880
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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