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FIREBALL: Instrument pointing and aspect reconstruction
Abstract
The Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBALL) had its first scientific flight in June 2009. The instrument is a 1 meter class balloon-borne telescope equipped with a vacuum-ultraviolet integral field spectrograph intended to detect emission from the inter-galactic medium at redshifts 0.3 < z < 1.0. The scientific goals and the challenging environment place strict constraints on the pointing and tracking systems of the gondola. In this manuscript we briefly review our pointing requirements, discuss the methods and solutions used to meet those requirements, and present the aspect reconstruction results from the first successful scientific flight.
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© 2010 SPIE. The material is based upon work supported by NASA under award No. NNX08AO39G. The FIREBALL collaboration also acknowledges support from CNES, LAM and CNRS.Attached Files
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- NNX08AO39G
- NASA
- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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- 7732