The balloon-borne telescope system for optical observation of planets

Author

Nakano, Toshihiko ; Sakamoto, Yuji ; Yoshida, Kazuya ; Kuwahara, Toshinori ; Shoji, Yasuhiro ; Taguchi, Makoto ; Yamamoto, Mutumi ; Takahashi, Yukihiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Aerosp., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

21-22 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

236

Lastpage

241

Abstract

Our team is carrying out the project of Planet observation with high precision using balloon-borne telescope. The first model, BBT-1 was equipped with a three stage pointing system and an optical system to observe the detailed structure of the atmospheric motion of Venus. The first flight test was conducted in 2009, and the performance of the system was verified. However, because of a trouble of onboard computer, the flight operation could not been finished as planned. The second model “BBT-2” is now being developed and the next flight test is planned in 2011. The BBT-2 has a bus system including FPGAs andCPU, and it is expected to be more stable than the BBT-1.

Keywords

Venus; aerospace instrumentation; astronomical telescopes; field programmable gate arrays; planetary atmospheres; BBT-1 model; BBT-2 model; CPU; FPGA; Venus; atmospheric motion; balloon-borne telescope system; bus system; field programmable gate arrays; flight operation; optical observation; planet observation; stage pointing system; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Integration (SII), 2010 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sendai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9316-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SII.2010.5708331

Filename

5708331