The Large UV/Optical/Infrared (LUVOIR) surveyor: engineering design and technology overview

Matthew R. Bolcar

doi:10.1117/12.2530456

9 September 2019 The Large UV/Optical/Infrared (LUVOIR) surveyor: engineering design and technology overview

Matthew R. Bolcar

Proceedings Volume 11115, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts IX; 111150P (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530456
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Large Ultraviolet / Optical / Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) is one of four large mission concepts being study by NASA in preparation for the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Over the past three and a half years, the LUVOIR Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT) and Study Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have developed a broad, compelling science case for LUVOIR, and detailed engineering point designs to achieve it. In this paper, we provide an overview of the two LUVOIR concepts: LUVOIR-A, a 15-m segmented, obscured aperture observatory, and LUVOIR-B, an 8-m segmented, unobscured aperture observatory. Both versions of LUVOIR cover a broad spectral range between 100 nm and 2.5 μm with a suite of imagers and spectrographs, including the High Definition Imager (HDI), the LUVOIR Ultraviolet Multi-object Spectrograph (LUMOS), and the Extreme Coronagraph for Living Planetary Systems (ECLIPS). LUVOIR-A will carry an additional fourth instrument, Pollux, a high-resolution UV spectropolarimeter being studied by the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). Both versions of LUVOIR are also designed to be serviceable and upgradeable. We will also provide a summary of the LUVOIR technology development program, which identifies critical enabling technologies, enhancing technologies, and a development plan to mature those technologies to TRL 6.

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Matthew R. Bolcar "The Large UV/Optical/Infrared (LUVOIR) surveyor: engineering design and technology overview", Proc. SPIE 11115, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts IX, 111150P (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530456

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