The Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) part of the Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) is an upcoming Earth Science mission focusing on the effects of climate change. The flight instrument passed all environmental testing at GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) and is now ready to be shipped to the spacecraft vendor for integration and testing. This topic covers the analysis leading up to the test setup for ATLAS thermal testing as well as model correlation to flight predictions. Test setup analysis section will include areas where ATLAS could not meet flight like conditions and what were the limitations. Model correlation section will walk through changes that had to be made to the thermal model in order to match test results. The correlated model will then be integrated with spacecraft model for on-orbit predictions.


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    Title :

    Thermal Testing and Model Correlation for Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter Instrument (ATLAS)


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Space Simulation Conference ; 2016 ; Annapolis, MD, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-11-14


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English