On Representative Spaceflight Instrument and Associated Instrument Sensor Web Framework

Kizhner, Semion; Patel, Umesh; Vootukuru, M.

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“…The EE subsystem does not require new technology development prior to the design phase. It leverages the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), James Web Space Telescope (JWST), Spitzer Observatory, Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) missions' EE technologies (presented in Section 4) and heritage in Science Sensors, ASICs and ROICs, onboard data processing by using reconfigurable computing (RC), FPGAs, Network and Instrument Sensor Web (ISW) [7] topologies, fine thermal control sensors, high speed data interfaces (Spacewire, High-Speed LowVoltage Differential Signaling or LVDS), harness radiation protection, and large 3.6 GB External Synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) augmented by a 0.34 GB SDRAM Buffer for exposure frames output to the ICDH. The SUTR maps the 3.6 GB SDRAM into 0.34 GB memory buffer for each exposure for all 36 sensors, which in-turn is compressed conservatively at 2:1 ratio by the ICDH for output of 170 MB per exposure to the SC SSR for the shortest exposure of 150 seconds.…”

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On DESTINY instrument electrical and electronics subsystem framework

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2010

2010 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems

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Future space missions are going to require a few large focal planes with many sensing arrays and hundreds of millions of pixels all read out at high data rates , . This will place unique demands on the electrical and electronics (EE) subsystem design and it will be critically important to have high technology readiness level (TRL) EE concepts ready to support such missions. One such mission is the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) charged with making precise measurements of expansion rate of the universe to reveal vital clues about the nature of dark energy -a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion. One of three JDEM concept studies -the Dark Energy Space Telescope (DESTINY) was conducted in 2008 at the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland. This paper presents the EE subsystem framework, which evolved from the DESTINY science instrument study. It describes the main challenges and implementation concepts related to the design of an EE subsystem featuring multiple focal planes populated with dozens of large arrays and millions of pixels. The focal planes are passively cooled to cryogenic temperatures (below 140 K). The sensor mosaic is controlled by a large number of Readout Integrated Circuits and Application Specific Integrated Circuits -the ROICs/ASICs in near proximity to their sensor focal planes. The ASICs, in turn, are serviced by a set of warm EE subsystem boxes performing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based digital signal processing (DSP) computations of complex algorithms, such as sampling-upthe-ramp algorithm (SUTR), over large volumes of fast data streams. The SUTR boxes are supported by the Instrument Control/Command and Data Handling box (ICDH Primary and Backup boxes) for lossless data compression, command and low volume telemetry handling, power conversion and for communications with the spacecraft. This paper outlines how the JDEM DESTINY instrument EE subsystem can be built now, a design that is generally applicable to a wide variety of missions using large focal planes with large mosaics of sensors.

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“…The JDEM DESTINY concepts were developed over the last few years and described in [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].…”

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On DESTINY instrument electrical and electronics subsystem framework

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2010

2010 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems

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On DESTINY science instrument electrical and electronics subsystem framework

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2010

2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference

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Abstract-Future space missions are going to require large focal planes with many sensing arrays and hundreds of millions of pixels all read out at high data rates''`. This will place unique demands on the electrical and electronics (EE) subsystem design and it will be critically important to have high technology readiness level (TRL) EE concepts ready to support such missions. One such omission is the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) charged with making precise measurements of the expansion rate of the universe to reveal vital clues about the nature of dark energy -a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of the expansion. One of three JDEM concept studies -the Dark Energy Space Telescope (DESTINY) was conducted in 2008 at the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland. This paper presents the EE subsystem framework, which evolved from the DESTINY science instrument study. It describes the main challenges and implementation concepts related to the design of an EE subsystem featuring multiple focal planes populated with dozens of large arrays and millions of pixels. The focal planes are passively cooled to cryogenic temperatures (below 140 K). The sensor mosaic is controlled by a large number of Readout Integrated Circuits and Application Specific Integrated Circuits -the ROICs/ASICs in near proximity to their sensor focal planes. The ASICs, in turn, are serviced by a set of "warm" EE subsystem boxes performing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based digital signal processing (DSP) computations of complex algorithms, such as sampling-upthe-ramp algorithm (SUTR), over large volumes of fast data streams. The SUTR boxes are supported by the Instrument Control/Command and Data Handling box (ICDH Primary and Backup boxes) for lossless data compression, command and low volume telemetry handling, power conversion and for communications with the spacecraft. The paper outlines how the JDEM DESTINY concept instrument EE subsystem can be built now, a design; which is generally

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On Representative Spaceflight Instrument and Associated Instrument Sensor Web Framework

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