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Title: | Metrology on-board PROBA-3: The shadow position sensors subsystem | Authors: | NOCE, Vladimiro LOREGGIA, Davide CAPOBIANCO, Gerardo FINESCHI, Silvano BEMPORAD, Alessandro CASTI, MARTA Buckley, Steven ROMOLI, MARCO FOCARDI, MAURO BELLUSO, Massimiliano Thizy, Cédric Hermans, Aline Galano, Damien Versluys, Jorg |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Journal: | ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH | Number: | 67 | Issue: | 11 | First Page: | 3807 | Abstract: | PROBA-3 is an ESA mission aimed at the demonstration of formation flying performance of two satellites that will form a giant coronagraph in space. The first spacecraft will host a telescope imaging the solar corona in visible light, while the second, the external occulter, will produce an artificial eclipse. This instrument is named ASPIICS (Association of Spacecraft for Polarimetric and Imaging Investigation of the Corona of the Sun). To accomplish the payload's scientific tasks, PROBA-3 will ensure sub-millimeter reciprocal positioning of its two satellites using closed-loop on-board metrology. Several metrology systems will be used and the Shadow Position Sensor (SPS) subsystem senses the penumbra around the instrument aperture and returns the 3-D displacement of the coronagraph satellite, with respect to its nominal position, by running a dedicated algorithm. In this paper, we describe how the SPS works and the choices made to accomplish the mission objectives. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/31753 | URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117720305627?via%3Dihub https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85090837668 |
ISSN: | 0273-1177 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.asr.2020.08.004 | Bibcode ADS: | 2021AdSpR..67.3807N | Fulltext: | open |
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