OVERVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT Outgassing in near vacuum Atmospheric drag Chemical reactions Plasma-induced charging Radiation damage of microcircuits, solar arrays, and sensors single event upsets in digital devices Hyper-velocity impacts
Goal: Give necessary optics background to tackle a space mission, which includes an optical payload Light .Interaction of light w/environment o Optical design fundamentals Optical performance considerations .Telescope types and CCd design interferometer types
Overview lecture Space Systems Engineering presented by: Prof David Miller prepared by: Olivier de Weck Revised and augmented by: Soon-Jo Chung Chart: 1 16.684 Space Systems Product Development February 13, 2001
Optimization of Separated Spacecraft Interferometer Trajectories in the Absence of A Gravity-Well Edmund M Kong Prof david w, miller MIT Space Systems Laboratory 20th March 1998 Space Systems Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Background OF TECHN Why is Software Engineering Hard? “Curse of flexibility \And they looked upon the software and saw that it was good. But they just had to add one other feature ... No physical constraints
Overview Spacecraft data processing requires microcomputers and interfaces that are functionally similar to desktop systems However, space systems require: - Low power, volume, and mass High reliability and fault tolerance