Distributed Space System Architecture to Enable Rapid Technology Development
The Experiment for Space Radiation Analysis (ESRA) is the next in the series of Demonstration and Validation (DemVal) projects the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) program will fly. The ESRA program will mature technologies such as the novel Wide-field-of-view Plasma Spectrometer (WPS) and the Energetic Charged Particle (ECP) telescope, along with high voltage power supply, a 3U Eurocard single board computers, flight software architecture, and analog-to-digital electronics. The WPS and ECP sensors are intended to actively monitor the local space environment, thus allowing for the attribution and rapid anomaly resolution of unanticipated instrument or spacecraft behavior as a result of space weather effects. The Autonomous Ion Mass Spectrometer Sentry (AIMSS) is a high-resolution ion mass spectrometer designed to make observations of low-energy space plasmas in planetary ionospheres. Additionally, AIMSS is capable of measuring charge exchange ions due to the interaction of spacecraft thruster plumes and the ionospheric plasma as they deliver supplies and crew the International Space Station (ISS). The particles expelled by thruster systems cause contamination of space station surfaces that degrade optical and thermal surfaces along with causing increased spacecraft surface charging.
Authors
- Phil A. Fernandes
- Michael Caffrey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-827X)
- Kerry Boyd (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9365-6962)
- Andrew Kirby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5252-2220)
- J. Barney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8687-1290)
- Rory Scobie
- Carlos Maldónado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1130-5067)
- Douglas Patrick
- Quinn Cole
- Martin Kroupa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9138-6804)
- Heidi Morning
- Brooke N. Mosley
- Andrew Harvilla
- Kristina McKeown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2513-9650)
- J. T. Steinberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2491-1661)
- Kim Katko
- Markus P. Hehlen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-7108)
- R. M. Skoug (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1991-2643)
- Ted Schultz
- Justin McGlown
- Jonathan Deming (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9454-4396)
- Susan Mendel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6747)
- Keith Morgan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5894-4862)
- Daniel Arnold (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5429-1005)
- Anthony J. Rogers
- Angus Guider
- Anthony Nelson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7474-9282)
- B. Larsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4515-0208)
- John Michel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2043-794X)
- A. Gula (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0857-5568)
- Darrel Beckman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0064-6034)
- Justin L. Tripp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0255-3210)
- Paul Graham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3745-0940)
- Katherine Alano
- Daniel Dahl
- Zachary Miller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2534-9317)
- Dan Reisenfeld
- Darren Harvey
- J.P. Martinez
- Joshua Ortner
- Jeff George
- Rob Merl
- Erik Krause
- Kasidit Subsomboon
- Tom Fairbanks
- Evan Pino
- Michael Holloway (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2247-3450)
- Kirsten Ford
Institutions
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/aero63441.2025.11068556
- Primary Topic
- Spacecraft Design and Technology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00