Shimmer on STS-112: Development and Proof-of-Concept Flight

Abstract

The Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER), which is based on a new interferometric technique called Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy (SHS), flew on the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-112 in October 2002. SHS has the advantages of high throughput, high spectral resolution, small size, low mass, all in a rugged instrument with no moving optical components. The SHS proof-of-principal flight successfully demonstrated the suitability of SHS for spaceflight applications where high spectral resolution measurements over a relatively narrow spectral band are required. In addition, the highest spectral resolution measurement of middle atmospheric hydroxyl (OH) solar resonance fluorescence ever achieved was made by SHIMMER during this mission.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA526769

Entities

People

  • Christoph R Englert
  • Fred L. Roesler
  • Joel G. Cardon
  • John M. Harlander
  • Michael H. Stevens

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Astronautics
  • Calibration
  • Charge Coupled Devices
  • Data Acquisition
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Interferograms
  • Interferometers
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Optics
  • Scattering
  • Solar Spectrum
  • Space Sciences
  • Space Shuttles
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites