SPARCS payload assembly, integration, and test update

Paul A. Scowen; David Ardila; Logan Jensen; Johnathan Gamaunt; Shouleh Nikzad; April Jewell; Jim Austin; Matthew Beasley; Evgenya Shkolnik; Travis Barman; Judd Bowman; Varoujan Gorjian; Dawn Gregory; Daniel Jacobs; Joe Llama; Mary Knapp; Victoria Meadows; Sarah Peacock; Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa; Mark Swain; Peter Vedder; Lisa Whelan; Robert Zellem

doi:10.1117/12.2562582

16 December 2020 SPARCS payload assembly, integration, and test update

Paul A. Scowen, David Ardila, Logan Jensen, Johnathan Gamaunt, Shouleh Nikzad, April Jewell, Jim Austin, Matthew Beasley, Evgenya Shkolnik, Travis Barman, Judd Bowman, Varoujan Gorjian, Dawn Gregory, Daniel Jacobs, Joe Llama, Mary Knapp, Victoria Meadows, Sarah Peacock, Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa, Mark Swain, Peter Vedder, Lisa Whelan, Robert Zellem

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Proceedings Volume 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 114440A (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562582
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The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a 6U CubeSat under construction that is devoted to the photometric monitoring of M stars in the far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV), to measure the time-dependent spectral slope, intensity and evolution of low-mass star high-energy radiation. We report on the progress made in the assembly, integration and test of the instrument payload at Arizona State University using a custom TVAC chamber and optical stimulus that provides calibration light sources and the custom contamination control environment that the FUV demands. The payload consists of a custom 90mm clear aperture telescope developed by Hexagon/Sigma Space, combined with a dichroic plate to separate the FUV and NUV beams developed by Teledyne Acton and Materion, married with twin focal plane array cameras separately optimized for their bandpasses as developed by JPL.

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Paul A. Scowen, David Ardila, Logan Jensen, Johnathan Gamaunt, Shouleh Nikzad, April Jewell, Jim Austin, Matthew Beasley, Evgenya Shkolnik, Travis Barman, Judd Bowman, Varoujan Gorjian, Dawn Gregory, Daniel Jacobs, Joe Llama, Mary Knapp, Victoria Meadows, Sarah Peacock, Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa, Mark Swain, Peter Vedder, Lisa Whelan, and Robert Zellem "SPARCS payload assembly, integration, and test update", Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114440A (16 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562582

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