TY - GEN
T1 - PRECISION ALIGNMENT PROCEDURE FOR THE tREXS SOUNDING ROCKET PAYLOAD OPTICAL ASSEMBLY USING A PORTABLE CMM ARM
AU - O'Meara, Bridget C.
AU - McCurdy, Ross C.
AU - Miles, Drew M.
AU - Tutt, James H.
AU - Baker, Logan D.
AU - Guillen, Nestor Pelaez
AU - Weston, Joseph
AU - McEntaffer, Randall L.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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T3 - Proceedings - ASPE 2022 Annual Meeting
SP - 60
EP - 64
BT - Proceedings - ASPE 2022 Annual Meeting
PB - American Society for Precision Engineering, ASPE
T2 - 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering, ASPE 2022
Y2 - 10 October 2022 through 14 October 2022
ER -