Design concept of the electrical ground support equipment for the AIV and calibration of the Euclid NISP instrument

摘要

The Near Infrared Spectro-Photometer (NISP) on board the Euclid ESA mission will be developed and tested at variouslevels of integration using various test equipment which shall be designed and procured through a collaborative andcoordinated effort.In this paper we describe the Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) which shall be required to support theassembly, integration, verification and testing (AIV/AIT) and calibration activities at instrument level before delivery toESA, and at satellite level, when the NISP instrument is mounted on the spacecraft.We present the EGSE conceptual design as defined in order to be compliant with the AIV/AIT and calibrationrequirements. The proposed concept is aimed at maximizing the re-use in the EGSE configuration of the Test Equipmentdeveloped for subsystem level activities, as well as, at allowing a smooth transition from instrument level to satellitelevel, and, possibly, at Ground Segment level.This paper mainly reports the technical status at the end of the Definition phase and it is presented on behalf of theEuclid Consortium.© (2012) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.