Exoplanet science can be accomplished with a telescope that has an internal coronagraph or with an external starshade. An internal coronagraph architecture requires extreme wavefront stability (10 pm change/10 minutes for 10(exp -10) contrast), so every source of wavefront error (WFE) must be controlled. Analysis has been done to estimate the thermal stability required to meet the wavefront stability requirement. This paper illustrates the potential of a new thermal control method called predictive thermal control (PTC) to achieve the required thermal stability. A simple development test using PTC indicates that PTC may meet the thermal stability requirements. Further testing of the PTC method in flight-like environments will be conducted in the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).


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    Title :

    Predictive Thermal Control Applied to HabEx


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SPIE Optics and Photonics 2017 Conference ; 2017 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2017-08-06


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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