The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal (SpIRIT) 6U CubeSat nano-satellite is an Australian mission with Italian partecipation for high-energy astrophysics. The 6U CubeSat carries an actively cooled detector system payload in a Sun-synchronous orbit. This payload unit is identical to the six that will fly onboard the High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites (HERMES) Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder ASI mission, hosting compact and innovative X-ray and gamma-ray detector for high energy transients localization (e.g., GRBs). SpIRIT was successfully launched on December 1, 2023 with a SpaceX Falcon 9, and the payload commissioning is in progress and about to be completed. This paper will provide an overview of the SpIRIT scientific payload early orbital operations, with the commissioning and in-flight calibrations of the instrument.
The commissioning and early operations of the high energy HERMES payload onboard SpIRIT / Baroni, Giulia; Campana, Riccardo; Evangelista, Yuri; Guzmán Cabrera, Alejandro; Hedderman, Paul; Dilillo, Giuseppe; Marchesini, Ezequiel J.; Della Casa, Giovanni; Trenti, Michele; Mcrobbie, Jack; Mearns, Robert; Ortiz Del Castillo, Miguel; Thomas, Matthew; Therakam, Clint; Chapman, Airlie; Pirrotta, Simone; Puccetti, Simonetta; Perri, Matteo; Santangelo, Andrea; Leone, Wladimiro; Trevisan, Sara; Citossi, Marco; Fiore, Fabrizio. - 13093:(2024). ( Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray jpn 2024) [10.1117/12.3018308].
The commissioning and early operations of the high energy HERMES payload onboard SpIRIT
Campana, Riccardo;Leone, Wladimiro;Trevisan, Sara;
2024-01-01
Abstract
The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal (SpIRIT) 6U CubeSat nano-satellite is an Australian mission with Italian partecipation for high-energy astrophysics. The 6U CubeSat carries an actively cooled detector system payload in a Sun-synchronous orbit. This payload unit is identical to the six that will fly onboard the High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites (HERMES) Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder ASI mission, hosting compact and innovative X-ray and gamma-ray detector for high energy transients localization (e.g., GRBs). SpIRIT was successfully launched on December 1, 2023 with a SpaceX Falcon 9, and the payload commissioning is in progress and about to be completed. This paper will provide an overview of the SpIRIT scientific payload early orbital operations, with the commissioning and in-flight calibrations of the instrument.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione
