The Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is being designed as a 1-m, cryogenically cooled telescope capable of a thirty-fold improvement over currently available infrared instruments. The SIRTF, mounted in the Orbiter bay on the Instrument Pointing System (IPS), requires that the image at the focal plane be stabilized to better than 0.1 arcsec with an absolute accuracy of 1 arcsec in order to attain this goal. Current estimates of IPS performance for both stability and accuracy indicate that additional stabilization will be necessary to meet the SIRTF requirements. An Image Motion Compensation (IMC) system, utilizing a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) star tracker located at the focal plane and a steerable mirror in the SIRTF optical path, has been designed to work in conjunction with the IPS.
Internal image motion compensation system for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility
Automatic control in space ; 1979 ; Oxford
1980-01-01
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Image motion compensation system for the shuttle infrared telescope facility
Tema Archive | 1981
|Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility
NTRS | 1976
|Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility
SPIE | 1976
|Shuttle infrared telescope facility
Tema Archive | 1976
|SIRTF - The Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility
NTRS | 1982
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