The instrument control unit of the PLATO payload: design consolidation following the preliminary design review by ESA

R. Cosentino, Mauro Focardi, Stefano Pezzuto, G. Giusi, Emanuele Galli, Manuel Güdel, Franz Kerschbaum, Roland Ottensamer, Armin Luntzer, Dominik Loidolt, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Scige Liu, Alessio Traficante, David Biondi, Johann Hasiba, Karl Hofmann, Harald Jeszenszky, G. Laky, Harald Ottacher, Michael SteinbergerManfred B. Steller, Jorge Tonfat, Robert Wallner, Sonja Neukirchner, Mario Leichtfried, Carlo Del Vecchio Bianco, L. Serafini, Devitt Dini, Luca Pilato, Luca Toscano, Valfredo Zolesi

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Abstract

PLATO is an M-class mission (M3) of the European Space Agency (ESA) whose launch is scheduled in 2026. The main aim of the mission is the detection and characterization of terrestrial exoplanets orbiting around bright solar-type star. The payload consists of 26 small telescopes: 24 "normal" cameras and 2 "fast" cameras. The huge amount of data produced by the PLATO telescopes is acquired and processed on-board by the Data Processing System (DPS) made up by various processing electronic units. The DPS of the PLATO instrument comprises the Normal and Fast DPUs (Data Processing Units) and a single ICU (Instrument Control Unit), are data routed through a SpaceWire network. The topic of this paper is the description of the architecture of the ICU and its role within the DPS, the status of the Avionic Validation Model (AVM) testing at the end of the Unit Preliminary Design Review (UPDR) performed by ESA and the results of the test of the first engineering model.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020
UntertitelOptical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Redakteure*innenMakenzie Lystrup, Marshall D. Perrin
ErscheinungsortBellingham
Herausgeber (Verlag)International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
Seitenumfang11
ISBN (elektronisch)9781510636736
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Dez. 2020

Publikationsreihe

ReiheProceedings of SPIE
Band11443
ISSN0277-786X

ÖFOS 2012

  • 103003 Astronomie
  • 103004 Astrophysik

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