Design, Qualification, Calibration and Alignment of Position Sensing Detector for the NuSTAR Space Mission

Author

Liebe, Carl Christian ; Bauman, Bruce W. ; Clark, Gerald R. ; Cook, Rick ; Kecman, Branislav ; Madsen, Kristin Kruse ; Mao, Peter ; Meras, Patrick ; Miyasaka, Hiromasa ; Cooper, Mark ; Scholz, Christopher ; Sedaka, Jack

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

12

Issue

6

fYear

2012

fDate

6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2006

Lastpage

2013

Abstract

A commercial position sensing detector (PSD) has been used to measure mast deflections on a space based X-ray telescope (NuSTAR). This paper describes the space qualification process for utilizing a commercial PSD sensor in space. This discussion includes packaging, environmental testing, selection of flight candidate devices, calibration and alignment.

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; calibration; position measurement; sensors; NuSTAR space mission; calibration; commercial PSD sensor; environmental testing; flight candidate devices; mast deflections; packaging; position sensing detector; space based X-ray telescope; Calibration; Dark current; Detectors; Extraterrestrial measurements; Measurement by laser beam; Semiconductor device measurement; Temperature measurement; Metrology system; NuSTAR; position sensing detector; space qualification;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Sensors Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1530-437X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSEN.2011.2181355

Filename

6121893