IMPA:Ct--in-situ monitors of the particulate ambient: circumterrestrial--an international consortium of instrument suppliers

Charles G. Simon; Robert A. Skrivanek; R. Muenzenmayer; A. J. Tuzzolino; W. G. Tanner Jr.; Carl R. Maag; O. Manuel Uy; Jim J. Wortman

doi:10.1117/12.177651

8 June 1994 IMPA:Ct--in-situ monitors of the particulate ambient: circumterrestrial--an international consortium of instrument suppliers

Charles G. Simon, Robert A. Skrivanek, R. Muenzenmayer, A. J. Tuzzolino, W. G. Tanner Jr., Carl R. Maag, O. Manuel Uy, Jim J. Wortman

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Proceedings Volume 2214, Space Instrumentation and Dual-Use Technologies; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177651
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1994, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The Industry and University participants listed above have joined together to form the IMPA:Ct consortium, which offers a broad range of flight qualified technologies for real time monitoring of small particles, 0.1 micron to 10 cm, in the space environment. Instruments are available in 12 months or less at costs ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 million dollars (US) for the total program. Detector technologies represented by these groups are: impact-induced capacitor-discharge (MOS, metal-oxide-silicon), cratering or penetration of electroactive thin film (polyvinylidene fluoride), impact-plasma detection, acoustic detection, ccd tracking of optical scatter of sunlight, and photodiode detection of optical scatter of laser light. The operational characteristics, general spacecraft interface and resource requirements (mass/power/telemetry), cost and delivery schedules, and points of contact for 7 different instruments are presented.

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Charles G. Simon, Robert A. Skrivanek, R. Muenzenmayer, A. J. Tuzzolino, W. G. Tanner Jr., Carl R. Maag, O. Manuel Uy, and Jim J. Wortman "IMPA:Ct--in-situ monitors of the particulate ambient: circumterrestrial--an international consortium of instrument suppliers", Proc. SPIE 2214, Space Instrumentation and Dual-Use Technologies, (8 June 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177651

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