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Team Meeting at UCB SSL 1

LiteBIRD US Team Meeting

10/13/2015

10/13/2015

Intro to SSL

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Team Meeting at UCB SSL 2

SSL Conference Rooms

10/13/2015

Main Conference Room

Annex Conference Room

Library Conference Room

To reserve a room, or check location, visit https://rooms.ssl.berkeley.edu/

LiteBIRDSPACE SCIENCES LABORATORYBackground• Initiated in 1958 by Drs. Teller and Seaborg• Multidisciplinary organization• Connecting campus research to space efforts• Facility opened in 1966• New facilities added in 1998Research Efforts Involving• Balloons• Sounding rockets• Satellite instruments & science complements• Complete satellites• Mission & Science Operations• Ground Station OperationsAgencies Involved• NASA, NSF, NSBF, USAF, DOE• ESA, ISAS, IKI, PSI, etc.• $35M/yr (85% NASA, 15% NSF, 5% misc.)

LiteBIRDFacilities

• 55000 sq. ft. Office and Laboratory Space

• Employing 420 Scientists, Engineers, Staff

• On-Site Machine Shop

• Clean Room Facilities to Class 100

• Thermal Vacuum Facilities up to 3m diameter

• Spacecraft Integration Facility

• 4-story High Bay

• Mission Operations Centers

• Science Operations Centers

• 11 Meter S-Band Satellite Antenna

• Secure High Speed Communications to NASA assets

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Operations Components• Mission Operations Center

• Science Operations Center

• 11-meter S-Band Antenna with X-band upgrade capability

• High Speed Communications to NASA Ground Network

• Network Security

• Autonomous Operations– Pass Supports

– Tracking and Data Acquisition

– Spacecraft Command and Control

– Emergency Response System

– Self Checking

LiteBIRDSpace Flight InstrumentsPolar Electric Field Wind 3D PlasmaCluster II EFW, CISIMAGE FUV, WICMars Global Surveyor ERUlysses LANSOHO UVCS & SUMERSTEREO - IMPACTMAVEN

Explorer SpacecraftEUVEFASTRHESSITHEMIS (5 )NUSTARICON (in development)

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EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET EXPLORER

• Project Management

• Science Package

– Telescopes

– Electronics

• Mission Operations

• Science Operations

 Launched on 7 June 1992Mission Successfully Concluded 1Q2001

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FAST AURORAL SNAPSHOT

• Science Package

– Electric Field Instruments

– Particle Instruments

– Electronics

• Mission Operations

• Science Operations Launched on 21 Aug 1996Mission Ended in 2003

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RAMATY HIGH ENERGY SOLARSPECTROSCOPIC IMAGER (RHESSI)

• Project Management• Spacecraft Bus (Autonomous Sun-pointed Spinner)• Science Instruments

– Imager (Rotating Modulation Collimator)– Spectrometer (X-ray detectors)– Electronics (80 Mbps telemetry rate)

• Mission and Science Operations• Launch on Pegasus XL rocket• Ground Data Systems inc. 11-meter Antenna

• Cost Capped at $72 M FY98 inc. Launch• Spacecraft was Designed & Built in 22 months• Destroyed in a Vibration Malfunction at JPL• Rebuilt and Launched February 5, 2002• Mission Operations Were Planned for 2 years RHESSI is Still Operating after 13.5 years

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Time History of Events and Macroscopic Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS)

• Project Management• Spacecraft Bus (with Propulsion)• Science Instruments

– EFI (3-Axis Electric Fields)– FGM (3-Axis DC Magnetic Fields) (East Germany)– SCM (3-Axis AC Magnetic Fields) (CNES)– ESA (Low Energy Electrons and Ions)– SST (High Energy Electrons and Protons)

• 20 Ground Stations located in Canada and Alaska• Mission and Science Operations Centers• Launched on a Single Delta-II rocket• Cost Capped at $180 M FY02 inc. Launch• All Five Spacecraft and Carrier cost only $68 M RY• Mission Accomplished. Two Are Now in Lunar Orbit! THEMIS is Still Operating after 8.5 years

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Solar Probe Plus (SPP) FIELDS

• Instrument Management• Science Instruments

– EFI (3-Axis Electric Fields)– MAG (3-Axis DC Magnetic Fields)– SCM (3-Axis AC Magnetic Fields)

• Science Operations Center

FIELDS Delivery to Spacecraft March 2017

Main Electronics Pkg. Antenna (4) SCM MAG (2)