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Title: | The instrument control unit of the PLATO payload: design consolidation following the preliminary design review by ESA | Authors: | COSENTINO, Rosario FOCARDI, MAURO PEZZUTO, Stefano GIUSI, Giovanni GALLI, Emanuele DI GIORGIO, Anna Maria Liu, Scige TRAFICANTE, ALESSIO BIONDI, David Hasiba, Johan Hofmann, Karl Jeszenszky, Harald Laky, Gunter Ottacher, Harald Steinberger, Michael Steller, Manfred Tonfat, Jorge Wallner, Robert Neukirchner, Sonja Leichtfried, Mario DEL VECCHIO BLANCO, CARLO Serafini, Luca Dini, Devitt Pilato, Luca Toscano, Luca Zolesi, Valfredo Guedel, Manuel Kerschbaum, Franz Ottensamer, Roland Luntzer, Armin Loidolt, Dominik |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Volume: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave | Editors: | Lystrup, Makenzie; Perrin, Marshall D.; Batalha, Natalie; Siegler, Nicholas; Tong, Edward C. | Series: | PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE | Number: | 11443 | First Page: | 114434V | Abstract: | PLATO is an M-class mission (M3) of the European Space Agency (ESA) whose launch is scheduled in 2026. The main aim of the mission is the detection and characterization of terrestrial exoplanets orbiting around bright solar-type star. The payload consists of 26 small telescopes: 24 "normal" cameras and 2 "fast" cameras. The huge amount of data produced by the PLATO telescopes is acquired and processed on-board by the Data Processing System (DPS) made up by various processing electronic units. The DPS of the PLATO instrument comprises the Normal and Fast DPUs (Data Processing Units) and a single ICU (Instrument Control Unit), are data routed through a SpaceWire network. The topic of this paper is the description of the architecture of the ICU and its role within the DPS, the status of the Avionic Validation Model (AVM) testing at the end of the Unit Preliminary Design Review (UPDR) performed by ESA and the results of the test of the first engineering model. | Conference Name: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave | Conference Place: | California, United States | Conference Date: | 14-18 December, 2020 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/31477 | URL: | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11443/2562003/The-instrument-control-unit-of-the-PLATO-payload--design/10.1117/12.2562003.full?SSO=1 | ISSN: | 0277-786X | DOI: | 10.1117/12.2562003 | Bibcode ADS: | 2020SPIE11443E..4VC | Fulltext: | open |
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