SIM-PlanetQuest Technology Completion: A Retrospective View
- Paper number
IAC-06-A3.P.1.05
- Author
Dr. Robert Laskin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. James C. Marr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
- Year
2006
- Abstract
The SIM-PlanetQuest Mission (hereafter referred to as SIM), a NASA astrometry mission that will provide the ability to measure stellar positions and proper motions with unprecedented accuracy, is technically ready to support a launch as early as December 2011. An overview of the SIM mission was presented at the IAC 2005. This paper provides a briefer version of the mission overview primarily focusing on providing a complete description of the full SIM technology development/demonstration program completed over the last 10 years. This paper will describe each of the specific technology challenges, how they were addressed, the specific results achieved and how these results translate into the overall predicted mission performance. These demonstrations included component, subsystem, and system-level demonstrations and involved extensive analytic modeling at the milli-kelvin thermal level, at the nanometer optical path control level, and at the picometer optical path knowledge level. Overall system-level complexity and integration challenges were also addressed.
- Abstract document
- Manuscript document
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