Development of an EUV Test Facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center

Abstract

This paper will describe a new Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) test facility that is being developed at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to test EUV telescopes. Two flight programs, Hi-C, the high resolution coronal imager (a sounding rocket program), and SUVI, the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (GOES-R), set the requirements for this new facility. This paper will discuss those requirements, the EUV source characteristics, the wavelength resolution that is expected and the vacuum chambers (Stray Light Facility, Xray Calibration Facility and the NSSTC EUV test chamber) where this facility will be used.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 22, 2011
Accession Number
ADA576673

Entities

People

  • Amy Winebarger
  • Brian Robinson
  • Edward West
  • Jessica Gaskin
  • Jonathan Cirtain
  • Jonathan Darnel
  • Ken Kobayashi
  • Linda Krause
  • Michael Mcguirk
  • Steve Pavelitz

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Detectors
  • Emission
  • Gas Flow
  • Heart Rate
  • High Resolution
  • High Voltage
  • Ionization
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Sounding Rockets
  • Space Flight
  • Space Sciences
  • Test Facilities
  • Vacuum Chambers
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Space