Development of the Radiometer Atmospheric CubeSat Experiment payload

Author

Boon Lim ; Shearn, M. ; Dawson, Daniel ; Parashare, Chaitali ; Romero-Wolf, Andrew ; Russell, D. ; Steinkraus, Joel

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

849

Lastpage

851

Abstract

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is developing the Radiometer Atmospheric CubeSat Experiment (RACE), which consists of a water vapor radiometer integrated on a 3 U CubeSat platform. RACE will measure 2 channels off the 183 GHz water vapor line, and will be used to validate new low noise amplifier technology and internal calibration methodology. RACE will advance the technology readiness level (TRL) of the 183 GHz receiver subsystem from TRL 4 to TRL 6 and a CubeSat 183 GHz radiometer system from TRL 4 to TRL 7.

Keywords

atmospheric humidity; atmospheric measuring apparatus; radiometers; remote sensing; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; RACE PAYLOAD; Radiometer Atmospheric Cubesat Experiment payload; U CubeSat platform; frequency 183 GHz; internal calibration methodology; low noise amplifier technology; receiver subsystem; water vapor line; water vapor radiometer; Calibration; Current measurement; Extraterrestrial measurements; Microwave radiometry; Payloads; Receivers; Atmospheric measurements; CubeSat; Low earth orbit satellites; MMICs; Microwave radiometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6721292

Filename

6721292