The optical head of the EnVisS camera for the Comet Interceptor ESA mission: Phase 0 study
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2020
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7
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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume 11443
Abstract
EnVisS (Entire Visible Sky) is an all-sky camera specifically designed to fly on the space mission Comet Interceptor. This mission has been selected in June 2019 as the first European Space Agency (ESA) Fast mission, a modest size mission with fast implementation. Comet Interceptor aims to study a dynamically new comet, or interstellar object, and its launch is scheduled in 2029 as a companion to the ARIEL mission. The mission study phase, called Phase 0, has been completed in December 2019, and then the Phase A study had started. Phase A will last for about two years until mission adoption expected in June 2022. The Comet Interceptor mission is conceived to be composed of three spacecraft: spacecraft A devoted to remote sensing science, and the other two, spacecraft B1 and B2, dedicated to a fly-by with the comet. EnVisS will be mounted on spacecraft B2, which is foreseen to be spin-stabilized. The camera is developed with the scientific task to image, in push-frame mode, the full comet coma in different colors. A set of ad-hoc selected broadband filters and polarizers in the visible range will be used to study the full scale distribution of the coma gas and dust species. The camera configuration is a fish-eye lens system with a FoV of about 180°x45°. This paper will describe the preliminary EnVisS optical head design and analysis carried out during the Phase 0 study of the mission.Description
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All-sky imager, Comet interceptor, Optical head design, Space camera
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Da Deppo , V , Pernechele , C , Jones , G H , Brydon , G , Zuppella , P , Chioetto , P , Nordera , S , Slemer , A , Crescenzio , G , Piersanti , E , Spanò , P , Bucciol , G , Consolaro , L , Lara , L & Slavinskis , A 2020 , ' The optical head of the EnVisS camera for the Comet Interceptor ESA mission: Phase 0 study ' , Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering , vol. 11443 , 1144379 . https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562907
