UV/visible camera for the Clementine mission

Joseph F. Kordas; Isabella T. Lewis; Robert E. Priest; W. Travis White III; Darron P. Nielsen; Hye-Sook Park; Bruce A. Wilson; Michael J. Shannon; Arno G. Ledebuhr; Lyn D. Pleasance

doi:10.1117/12.210943

2 June 1995 UV/visible camera for the Clementine mission

Joseph F. Kordas, Isabella T. Lewis, Robert E. Priest, W. Travis White III, Darron P. Nielsen, Hye-Sook Park, Bruce A. Wilson, Michael J. Shannon, Arno G. Ledebuhr, Lyn D. Pleasance

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Proceedings Volume 2478, Space Telescopes and Instruments; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.210943
Event: SPIE's 1995 Symposium on OE/Aerospace Sensing and Dual Use Photonics, 1995, Orlando, FL, United States

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This article describes the Clementine UV/Visible (UV/Vis) multispectral camera, discusses design goals and preliminary estimates of on-orbit performance, and summarized lessons learned in building and using the sensor. While the primary objective of the Clementine Program was to qualify a suite of 6 light-weight, low power imagers for future Department of Defense flights, the mission also has provided the first systematic mapping of the complete lunar surface in the visible and near-IR spectral regions. The 410 g, 4.65 W UV/Vis camera uses a 384 X 288 frame-transfer silicon CCD FPA and operates at 6 user-selectable wavelength bands between 0.4 and 1.1 micrometers . It has yielded lunar imagery and mineralogy data with up to 120 m spatial resolution (band dependent) at 400 km periselene along a 39 km cross-track swath.

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Joseph F. Kordas, Isabella T. Lewis, Robert E. Priest, W. Travis White III, Darron P. Nielsen, Hye-Sook Park, Bruce A. Wilson, Michael J. Shannon, Arno G. Ledebuhr, and Lyn D. Pleasance "UV/visible camera for the Clementine mission", Proc. SPIE 2478, Space Telescopes and Instruments, (2 June 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.210943

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