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EVOLUTIONARY / EXPERIMENTAL IMAGERS

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U.S. SPACECRAFT 1980s and 90s

Janesick: NASA Galileo 1989 CCD imager
SEARCH SUBJECTS: NASA Galileo CCD Solid-State Imaging Subsystem (SSI) camera
    Space Shuttle Atlantis /  STS-34 service mission
    Texas Instruments 800 x 800 x 15 um virtual-phase CCD
    Kovar CCD package
    Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)

Janesick: NASA 1989 Galileo orbiter camera

Janesick: Galileo moons, Europa, Ganymede, Io and Callisto
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  The four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Io

janesick: 1989 Galileo CCD photo of Europa
SEARCH SUBJECT:  Europa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)

janesick" 1989 Galileo CCD photo of Asteroid Ida
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  Asteroid Ida and moon Dactyl

Janesick: Hubble wide field planetary camera (WF/PC I)
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  NASA Hubble Telescope CCD Wide Field / Planetary Camera 1 (WF/PC I)
    Space Shuttle Atlantis /  STS-31
    Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope

Janesick: Hubble wide field planetary camera CCD imager
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  Texas Instruments three-phase 800 x 800 x 15 um  CCD
    Kovar CCD package
    Backside illuminated (BSI) CCD
    Magnesium fluoride (MgF2) window
    Coronene phosphor

janesick: Wide field /Planetary Camera I proposal
SEARCH SUBJECT:  WF/PC I  technical proposal to NASA, science and objectives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_and_Planetary_Camera

Janesick: wide Field / Planetgary Camer I proposal contents
SEARCH SUBJECT:  Contents, WF/PC I  technical proposal to NASA, science and objectives

janesick: Wide Field / P{lanetary Camera I wafwe and CCD in its package
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Hubble WF/PC I three-inch silicon wafer
    The KH-11 KENNEN
1970s.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Black-Espionage-National-Security/dp/0425108791


Janesick: collection of 800 x 800 pixel CCDs sim,ilar to Hubble WF/PC I
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  WF/PC I silicon chips
    WF/PC I CCD shipping socket
    Optical interference   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film_interference

Janesikck: Hubble camera electronics bay
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  WF/PC I camera electronics
  WF/PC I camera enclosure


Janesikck: Hubble mirrolr
Search SUBJECTS: Hubble Telescope first light image (NGC 3532)
    Hubble Telescope spherical aberration

Janesick: Hubble UV flood fix
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  UV- light flood
    Quantum Efficiency Hysterisis (QEH)

Janesick: Jamesw Janesick and Jim Westphal after success of Hubble WF/PC I
SEARCH SUBJECT: James Westphal - WF/PC I principle investigator

Janesick: first Solar X-Ray CCD
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Yohkoh Solar-A Solar X-ray Telescope (SXT) CCD camera
    Texas Instruments 1000 x 1000 x 18 um virtual-phase CCD
    Solar Corona x-ray CCD image
    Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohkoh
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/yohkoh.htm

Janesick: Yohkoh Satellite
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Japanese M-3sII-6 rocket launch
    X-ray quantum efficiency (QE)
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/nuggets/


Janesick: Hubble WF/PC II CCD wafer
NASA Hubble Telescope CCD Wide Field / Planetary Camera 2 (WF/PC II)
    Space Shuttle Atlantis /  STS-125 service mission 4
    Ford Aerospace  800 x 800 x 15 um three-phase CCD
    Hubble WF/PC II silicon CCD wafer
    Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_and_Planetary_Camera_2

Janesick: Hubble WF/PC II deep space view of galaxies
SEARCH SUBJECT:  Hubble Deep View
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field

Janesick: Hubble photo of eagle Nebula in M16
SEARCH SUBJECT:  Gaseous Pillars - M16
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field


SEARCH SUBJECT:  WF/PC II CCD quartz reticules (photo masks)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolithography



SEARCH SUBJECT:  NASA Cosmic Unresolved Background Instrument using CCDs (CUBIC)
    X-ray CCD spectrometer
    Ford Aerospace thin-gate three-phase 1024 x 1024 x 18 um CCD
    CUBIC CCD silicon wafer
    Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=934963
https://www.google.com.au/patents/US536509



SEARCH SUBJECTS:   Pegasus XL rocket (with HETE)
    CCD x-ray spectra
http://www2.astro.psu.edu/xray/cubic/
http://www2.astro.psu.edu/xray/cubic/papers/cubic.cal.spie95/cubic.pcs.calibration.html




Skipper CCD

Non destructive readout - CCD imagers

Circulator CCD

Sub electron noise floor

Reticon CCD


For Skipper CCD design and operation refer to :

J. Janesick, Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, SPIE Press, PM 83, Bellingham, WA, (2001).   



CCD soft x-ray histogram

Photon counting

Fano limited noise performance

Floating gate technology

Cosmic Unresolved Background Instrument (CUBIC).

Dark matter CCD

 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8692/bdced1586725ffbf19f78c213547102016e5.pdf

 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/2518/0000/CUBIC-preflight-calibration-status/10.1117/12.218374.short

 https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.131802

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883379/

https://news.fnal.gov/2017/09/hunt-light-dark-matter/

http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/hepfront18/tiffenberg/rm/jwvideo.html 



Janesick: NASA Cassini-Huygens 1997 CCD wafer
SEARCH TOPICS:  NASA Cassini-Huygens CCD Camera
    Mission to Saturn and Titan
    Ford Aerospace  1000 x 1000 x 12 um three-phase CCD
    Cassini CCD silicon wafer
    Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens


Janesick: 1024 x 1024 pixel CCD imager
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  Titan IVB/Centaur
    CCD pixels, vertical / horizontal registers and output amplifier

Janesikck: Cassini imager design
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  AutoCad CCD design
    Packaged Cassini CCDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD

Janesick: Cassini photo of Saturn
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  CCD Saturn picture
    Radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)
http://www.csmonitor.com/1997/1010/101097.opin.opin.1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

Janesick Cassini photo of Saturn's north pole
SEARCH SUBJECT:  Saturn's north pole
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14946.html#.WGLRa1UrJOQ

Janesick: NASA Comet Rendezvous Asteroir Flyby
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  NASA  Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF)
    Ford Aerospace  1000 x 1000 x 12 um three-phase CCD
    Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Rendezvous_Asteroid_Flyby

Janesikck: Deep Space I / Pluto CCD
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  NASA Deep Space 1 (DS1)
    Miniature Integrated Camera Spectrometer, MICAS
    Heritage Pluto Integrated Camera Spectrometer
    Reticon 1024 x 1024 x 9 um pixel three-phase CCD
    Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1

Janeskick: Deep Space I Miniature Integrated Camera Spectrometer
SEARCH SUBJECT:  Comet Borrelly
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/deep-space-1-ds1/
http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/


Janeskick: NASA Stardust 1999 1024 x 1024 poixel CCD wafer
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  NASA Stardust
    Ford Aerospace  1000 x 1000 x 12 um three-phase CCD
   Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)

Janesick: Stardust photo of Comet Wild 2
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  Comet Wild
    Comet Wild Sampler

Janesick: Stardust photo of comet Tempel I
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  NASA Stardust New Exploration of Temple 1 (NExT)
    Ford Aerospace  1000 x 1000 x 12 um three-phase CCD
    Comet Temple

Janesick: NASA MISR mission 1999 three-phase pixel imagers
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  NASA Multi Imaging Spectral Radiometer (MISR)
    Terra satellite
    Earth resource imaging mission
    Ford Aerospace 1504 x 1 x 18um x 21um three-phase pixel CCD imager
    CCD thin gate technology
    MISR CCD silicon wafer
    Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-angle_Imaging_SpectroRadiometer
http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/


Janesick: NASA MISR camera and imzger chip
SEARCH SUBJECTS:  MISR CCD chip
    MISR CCD cameras
http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/misrInstrument/
http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/publicationFiles/Diner1998-TGRS1.pdf

Janesick: NASA MISR imagery
 
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EVOLUTIONARY / EXPERIMENTAL IMAGERS

FOR INFORMATION ON NON-ASTRONOMY CCDS - COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, ETC. CLICK HERE

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING SPACECRAFT, THEIR CAMERAS AND IMAGERS SHOWN ON THIS SITE CLICK HERE