PRECISION ALIGNMENT PROCEDURE FOR THE tREXS SOUNDING ROCKET PAYLOAD OPTICAL ASSEMBLY USING A PORTABLE CMM ARM

Bridget C. O'Meara, Ross C. McCurdy, Drew M. Miles, James H. Tutt, Logan D. Baker, Nestor Pelaez Guillen, Joseph Weston, Randall L. McEntaffer

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Abstract

The Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy (tREXS) are a series of suborbital sounding rocket payloads that will produce high resolution soft X-ray spectrographs of diffuse sources over wide fields of view. To achieve the desired resolution and field of view, the optical components of the paylods must be aligned to meet specified criteria. While there are many methods for aligning optical comonents, the alignment procedure for this mission is constrained to a relatively small space and budget. An alignment procedure based on a portable CMM arm, a hexapod, and an alignment cube was developed to achieve adequate alignment. The alignment procedure, and the final alignment results are presented in the this paper.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - ASPE 2022 Annual Meeting
PublisherAmerican Society for Precision Engineering, ASPE
Pages60-64
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781887706568
StatePublished - 2022
Event37th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering, ASPE 2022 - Bellevue, United States
Duration: Oct 10 2022Oct 14 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - ASPE 2022 Annual Meeting

Conference

Conference37th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering, ASPE 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBellevue
Period10/10/2210/14/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Mechanical Engineering

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