The SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform (SSIPP) is a protoflight system that leverages the low cost, reusability of suborbital vehicles. SSIPP enables observatory-like solar instrument development at a fraction of the cost and risk of traditional sounding rockets. It also enables solar science at important wavelengths and timescales. SSIPP Mk 1 is being developed to fit the payload space of the XCOR Lynx. It is an electrically self-contained, pilot-in-loop pointing system designed to provide sub-arcsecond pointing to remote sensing solar instruments. SSIPP is wavelength agnostic and includes a standard optical bench for rapid buildup of novel instrumentation. Assembly and testing complete, SSIPP awaits a demonstration test flight in late 2015 or early 2016. This paper will discuss SSIPP's motivation, design, current development, planned test flight, and future expansion of the instrument's technology.
Solar science from manned suborbital vehicles - the SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform
2015-03-01
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