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Enhanced Design of Low-Cost Launch Vehicle Observatory

This project involved optimizing a 1.1m aperture telescope design for cost-effective launch, by adjusting spectrometer channels, reducing telescope structure length, and revising Solar Array Sun Shade geometry. Additional studies are ongoing to enhance system margin.

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Enhanced Design of Low-Cost Launch Vehicle Observatory

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  1. Observatory Mass Management • DRM single channel 1.1m aperture design fits on lower cost launch vehicle with Gold Rule systems margin of 30% • Payload Spectrometer Channels Removed two optical channels, focal planes and radiators Added prism wheel • Telescope Structure Shortened in accordance with reduction in single channel optical path geometry Faster telescope Scaled down structural mass based on more efficient load paths • Solar Array Sun Shade (SASS) Geometrical shading coverage for spectrometers eliminated SASS shortened in accordance with reduction in single channel optical path geometry • Project conducting additional studies on increasing mass margin • SNe Roll Mass Considerations • SASS geometry and mass dominated by the pitch and roll requirements of microlensing survey. +/- 36 degrees pitch +/- 5 degrees roll • SNe pitch (+/- 20 degrees) and roll (+/- 22.5 degrees) do not drive the SASS design beyond what microlensing survey requires • Elimination of SNe roll requirements would not save SASS mass

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