CubeSpec: Optical payload design

Gert Raskin; Jeroen de Maeyer; Bart Vandenbussche; Dominic Bowman; Jan Goris; Maarten Kempenaers; Jacob Pember; Pierre Royer; Job Schuermans; Andrew Tkachenko; Dirk Vandepitte; Wim De Munter; Jelle Lanting; Huges Sana

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CubeSpec: Optical payload design

Gert Raskin^*, Jeroen de Maeyer, Bart Vandenbussche, Dominic Bowman, Jan Goris, Maarten Kempenaers, Jacob Pember, Pierre Royer, Job Schuermans, Andrew Tkachenko, Dirk Vandepitte, Wim De Munter, Jelle Lanting, Huges Sana

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CubeSpec is an ESA in-orbit-demonstration mission, based on a 6U CubeSat, targeting high-resolution astronomical spectroscopy. It is developed and funded in Belgium and scheduled for launch at the end of 2024. The CubeSpec payload consists of an off-axis Cassegrain telescope with a rectangular aperture (186x82mm²) and a prism cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph. The telescope aperture almost completely covers the surface area of 2 CubeSat units and the entire optical system fits in 4 units (10x20x20cm) of the spacecraft. CubeSpec delivers a spectral resolution of R=55000 and covers the wavelength range from 420 to 620 nm. Furthermore, it is equipped with a fine-guidance system based on a fast beam-steering mirror and a fine-guidance sensor that provide accurate centering of the source image on the spectrograph slit to compensate for spacecraft pointing jitter. In this contribution, we present the optical design of the CubeSpec payload.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022
Subtitle of host publication	Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Editors	Laura E. Coyle, Shuji Matsuura, Marshall D. Perrin
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	121802Z-1-121802Z-8
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510653429
ISBN (Print)	9781510653412
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630480
Publication status	Published - 27 Aug 2022
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave - Montreal, Canada Duration: 17 Jul 2022 → 22 Jul 2022

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	12180
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	17/07/22 → 22/07/22

Keywords

CubeSat
Optical design
Spectroscopy
Telescope

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Raskin, G., de Maeyer, J., Vandenbussche, B., Bowman, D., Goris, J., Kempenaers, M., Pember, J., Royer, P., Schuermans, J., Tkachenko, A., Vandepitte, D., De Munter, W., Lanting, J., & Sana, H. (2022). CubeSpec: Optical payload design. In L. E. Coyle, S. Matsuura, & M. D. Perrin (Eds.), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave (pp. 121802Z-1-121802Z-8). Article 121802Z (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12180). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630480

Raskin, Gert ; de Maeyer, Jeroen ; Vandenbussche, Bart et al. / CubeSpec : Optical payload design. Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave. editor / Laura E. Coyle ; Shuji Matsuura ; Marshall D. Perrin. Bellingham, Washington : SPIE, 2022. pp. 121802Z-1-121802Z-8 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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CubeSpec: Optical payload design. / Raskin, Gert; de Maeyer, Jeroen; Vandenbussche, Bart et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave. ed. / Laura E. Coyle; Shuji Matsuura; Marshall D. Perrin. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2022. p. 121802Z-1-121802Z-8 121802Z (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12180).

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