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Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise

Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise. General Points Used to working in either paradigm - as industrial contractor e.g. GOES-SXI, Solar-B FPP (Lockheed) Integral-OMC (Prodex) - as nationally-funded Institute (~30 satellite payloads)

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Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise

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  1. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise • General Points • Used to working in either paradigm- as industrial contractor e.g. GOES-SXI, Solar-B FPP (Lockheed) Integral-OMC (Prodex)- as nationally-funded Institute (~30 satellite payloads) • Used to working to well-defined delivery schedulese.g. Swift-UVOT, 100kg 30cm aperture UV/optical telescope2 years from grant award to delivery • Used to partnering industrial contractors e.g. ATSR on ERS-1 (SIRA/BAe, UKAEA at Harwell)

  2. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise • Infrastructure particularly relevant to • Eddicam • CCD-test facilities inNASA-accredited class-100 dark/light cleanroom • Optical test and characterisation reports produced on ~80 CCDs for NASA/ESA/ISAS space payloads (7 instruments) • Research Council PIPSS award to study optimisation of optical CCDs

  3. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise • CCD procurement and characterisation Track Record Relevance to Eddington • Procurer must understandand be involved withscientific requirements • Procurer needs good relationship with CCD supplierDiscussions ongoing with Marconi.(Peter Pool sends apologies).Baseline CCD42 has ~120Ke full well,CCD well capacity can be increased ~75%by going to 4-phase • Integral-OMC • Solar-B EIS • Swift-UVOT • XMM-Newton OM • GOES-SXI • Solar-B FPP

  4. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise

  5. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise Area Track Record Relevance to Eddington • CCD performancesimulation throughbench-top testing ofdevices (integratedwith computersimulations goingon at MSSL/INTA) • XMM-OM • Integral-OMC • GOES-SXI • Solar-B FPP • Swift-UVOT • Solar-B EIS • Important to understanddevice parameters • “CCD Issues for Eddington”,D.M.Walton, A.Smith,M.S.Cropper - Cordoba 2001

  6. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise Area Track Record Relevance to Eddington • Data PreprocessorSoftware • XMM-OM • XMM-RGS • Swift-UVOT • These are all CCDpreprocessors with featuressuch as • Defocussed spot processing • Cosmic Ray removal

  7. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise Area Track Record Relevance to Eddington • DPUSoftware • SOHO-CDS • XMM-OM* • XMM-RGS* • Swift-UVOT* • Cluster-Peace • Solar-B EIS* • *=CCD-based Considerable track recordin realtime processing,in particular of CCD data

  8. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise Area Track Record Relevance to Eddington • Focal Planeelectronics • Readoutelectronics • Integral-OMC • XMM-OM • Swift-UVOT • Solar-B FPP • Solar-B EIS • FPE/ROE performancecritical to achievingperformance, so must bebuilt by those involvedwith CCD performance • Requirements likely to evolveduring development, so lesssuited to purely industrialcontractor

  9. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise Area Track Record Relevance to Eddington • Data PreprocessorHardware • XMM-OM • XMM-RGS • Swift-UVOT Hardware sizing evaluation conducted recently,based on ADSP21020

  10. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise Area Track Record Relevance to Eddington • Power Conversion • XMM-OM • XMM-RGS • Swift-UVOT • Solar-B EIS Power converter performancesignificantly coupled toelectronics performance(e.g. noise), so requirementslikely to evolve and may bebetter suited to an institute

  11. Eddington - MSSL Areas of interest/expertise • Summary areas of interest • CCD procurement and characterisation • CCD performance simulation • Data preprocessing software • DPU software • Focal plane (front-end) electronics (prototyping?) • Readout (clock-sequencer, CDS) electronics (prototyping?) • Data preprocessing hardware (prototyping?) • Power conversion (prototyping?) • Paradigm • Some activities funded from national funding (software?) • Some activities in collaboration/consultation with industry Current status still developing post mission confirmation

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