The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer - Overview and calibration

The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) is a NASA-funded astronomy mission that will operate in the 70 to 760 A band. The science payload, which has been designed and built by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, consists of three grazing incidence scanning telesc...

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Published in:Optical engineering 1990-07, Vol.29, p.752-758
Main Authors: Welsh, Barry Y., Vallerga, John V., Jelinsky, Pat, Vedder, Peter W., Bowyer, Stuart
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
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Summary:The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) is a NASA-funded astronomy mission that will operate in the 70 to 760 A band. The science payload, which has been designed and built by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, consists of three grazing incidence scanning telescopes and an EUV spectrometer/deep survey instrument. This paper gives details of the planned mission profile and an overview of the instrumentation that the science payload comprises. Topics such as the thermal design, contamination control, and details of the electronics system are discussed. Finally, the results of the calibration of the various subsystems that make up the EUVE instrumentation are reviewed, and the calibration plan for the integrated EUVE instruments is discussed.
ISSN:0091-3286
DOI:10.1117/12.55659