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SPACECRAFT DESIGN
and
MISSION OPERATIONS

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SNAP ORBIT
"Prometheus" Orbit Baselined Following Preliminary Trade Study
Uses Lunar Assist to Achieve a 14 day (19 X 57 Re) Orbit, or 7 day (8 X 40 Re) Orbit
with a Delta III 8930 or Delta IV-M Launch Vehicle
Good Overall Optimization of Mission Trade-offs
Low Earth Albedo Provides Multiple Advantages:
Facilitates Passive Cooling of Detectors
Minimizes Stray Light in Telescope
Minimum Thermal Change on Structure Reduces Demand on ACS
Excellent Coverage from Berkeley Groundstation
Outside Radiation Belts

Orbit Reachable with Available Launch Vehicle

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High northern hemisphere orbit has excellent telemetry: ~ 50 Mbit/s for 19/57 orbit, >
50 Mbit/s for 8/40 orbit

8 Gbit (compressed) image every 200s: 40 Mbit/s

Data content: 1/3 optical images, 1/3 spectroscopy, 1/3 IR photometry

8Re X 40Re, inc=70 deg, AOP=270 deg
(8 day orbit)

24

Hours Visible

20
15
10
5
0

8
Day

10 11 12 13 14 15

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SPACECRAFT DESCRIPTION
Detailed Design and Specification of S/C will be Done by Industry Teaming Partner
We have Developed a Strawman Spacecraft to Support Costing, and Payload Layout
Power from 4 sq m GaAs cells mounted directly to Sun Shade
(No Deployable Arrays Required)
Propulsion System Uses Monopropellant Hydrazine
Telecom System uses 25W TWTA and 50 cm dish to Achieve 50 Mbit/sec
downlink
Standard Rad-Hard Processor System will be used for C&DH

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4 meter Composite Fairing

Heat Shield Assy
Solar Panels
Sun Shield

Optical Bench
Main Baffle Tube
Instrument Deck
Bus Assy
Truss
CCD Radiator
Propulsion Deck
1666-4 PAF

Delta IV Launch vehicle

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ACS System
Two Ball CT 602 Star Trackers Used for Coarse Tracking
Fast Read-out CCD in Science Telescope Provides 25 Hz Update Rate for Fine
Attitude Sensor
This System will provide overall Pointing Accuracy/Stability of .03 Arc-Sec
(1 Sigma) for Observatory
Reaction Wheel Package Consists of 4 Each of L3 Micro-balanced RWA-15 Units
Gyro Package Comprised of Redundant L3 RGA-20 Units with low drift

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Space Frame
Solar Panels
Sun Shield
MLI Blanket
Baffles

Star Tracker
TTL Star Guider
Gyro Assy

BusAssy
Truss
Composite shear
CCD Radiator
Reaction wheel
3 x 50cm dia. Hi-gain GMAs
2 x Lo-Gain Antennas
Transponder
Battery
Mass Memory Unit (MMU)
Spacecraft Control Unit (SCU)
Power Control Unit (PCU)

Propulsion Deck
12 x .5 lbf engines
1 x 5.0 lbf engine
3 x 47 cm dia. tanks
Controls
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OBSERVATORY INTEGRATION and TESTING

Detailed I&T Plan will be Developed During Study Phase
Test Philosophy Includes:
Build Test Functions into Hardware
Perform System Level Tests as Early as Possible
e.g. Do Subsystem Interface Tests at Bread Board Level
Test End-to-End Whenever Possible
Ability to Support Tests is an Important Factor in Choice of Teaming Partners
Strawman Plans Include:
Optics Testing Done by Optics Subcontractor
Spacecraft Contractor will Deliver a Fully Tested Spacecraft
Mechanical and Electrical Integration will be Done in an Appropriate Facility
Observatory Vibration and T/V Done in an Appropriate Facility
Final End-to-End Optical Test will be Done in an Appropriate Facility

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MISSION OPERATIONS
Mission Operations Center (MOC) at Space Sciences Using Berkeley Ground Station
Fully Automated System Tracks Multiple Spacecraft
Science Operations Center (SOC) at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Built Around the
National Energy Research Super Computer (NERSC)
Multiple Terabytes Data Storage
High Speed Links to CPU Farms & Supercomputers
Intensive Processing Done on Supercomputer with Final Analysis on PC's
Operations are Based on a Four Day Period
Autonomous Operation of the Spacecraft
Coincident SOC Review of Data with Build of Next Target List
Upload Instrument Configuration for Next Period

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Mission Planning, TLM and CMD

Science Data Processing

and Archiving at NERSC

On-line Data and Archives

SatTrack

World Wide Web

Real-time Orbit Displays

Schedules
Track Files

BGS

Data Reduction

Orbit Events
State Vectors

Quick Look Data Analysis

and Archiving

On-line Access

Station Interface
Email /
Log Files
Ephemeris Files

Ephemeris Files

Media Production
Supernova Data Catalog

Email / Log Files

SERS

MPS

System Monitor

Command Loads

Science Planning

TLM / CMD
Log Files

Observing Schedules

ITOS

WFF

Telemetry Processing
Command Generation
Real-time Displays
for Engineering Data

AGO

Station Interface
TLM / CMD

MOC at SSL

Co-Investigators
Internet /
Media

Local Archive

Observing Summary
Real-time Displays
for Science Data

National Archive

SOC at LBNL

Scientific Community

SNAP Ground Data System

File: snap_gds.fig

Data Flow Layout

M.Bester, 19Nov99

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