2 papers
astro-ph.IM2024
Optical alignment of contamination-sensitive Far-Ultraviolet spectrographs for Aspera SmallSat mission
Aafaque R. Khan, Erika Hamden, Haeun Chung +48
Aspera is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers SmallSat mission designed to study diffuse OVI emission from the warm-hot phase gas in the halos of nearby galaxies. Its payload consists of…
astro-ph.IM2024
SALTUS Probe Class Space Mission: Observatory Architecture and Mission Design
Leon K. Harding, Jonathan W. Arenberg, Benjamin Donovan +10
We describe the space observatory architecture and mission design of the SALTUS mission, a NASA Astrophysics Probe Explorer concept. SALTUS will address key far-infrared science us…