Development of Ground Support Equipment for the NPS Ionospheric Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Chemistry (ISAAC) Ultraviolet Spectrograph.

Abstract

This thesis details the design of Ground Support Equipment (GSE) for the Naval Postgraduate School's Ionospheric Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Chemistry (ISAAC) Ultraviolet Spectrograph. ISAAC is one of the several experiments to be flown on the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS) in 1996. The GSE consists of several software programs written in LabVIEW. These programs simulate the timing signals that ISAAC will receive from the satellite bus. In addition, the programs acquire serial data from ISAAC, perform a serial to parallel conversion and display the resulting spectra. The GSE will allow testing of the spectrograph prior to the interface with the satellite bus. Although the complete flight instrument is not yet available for testing, this thesis describes how the GSE-to-ISAAC interface will be made and how it should be operated. Finally, some hardware/software incompatibilities are identified. jg p.6

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA301505

Entities

People

  • Leloudas Fragiskos

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheric Chemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Data Acquisition
  • Detectors
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Flight Instruments
  • Ground Support
  • Ground Support Equipment
  • Measurement
  • Satellite Buses
  • Spacecraft
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites