Instrument Data Processing Unit for THEMIS

Details Instrument Data Processing Unit for THEMIS Instrument Data Processing Unit for THEMIS

Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008ssrv..141..153t&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, Volume 141, Issue 1-4, pp. 153-169

Computer Science

6

Themis, Space Instrumentation, Data Processing, Power Distribution And Control, Instrument Processing, Flight Software

Scientific paper

The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission is a NASA Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) mission, launched on February 17, 2007. The mission employs five identical micro-satellites, or “probes,” which line-up along the Earth’s magnetotail every four days in conjunctions to determine the trigger and large-scale evolution of magnetic substorms. The probes are equipped with a comprehensive suite of instruments that measure and track the motion of thermal and super-thermal ions and electrons, and electric and magnetic fields, at key regions in the magnetosphere. Primary science objectives require high data rates at periods of scientific interest, large data volumes, and control of science data collection on suborbital time scales. A central Instrument Data Processing Unit (IDPU) is necessary to organize and prioritize the data from the large number of instruments into a 200 MB solid state memory. The large data volume produced by the instruments requires a flexible memory capable of both high resolution snapshots during conjunctions and coarser survey data collection throughout the orbit. Onboard triggering algorithms select and prioritize the snapshots based on data quality to optimize the science data that is returned to the ground. This paper presents a detailed discussion of the hardware and software design of the THEMIS IDPU, describing the heritage design that has been fundamental to the THEMIS mission success so far.

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