Flight control software for the wave-front sensor of SUNRISE 1m balloon telescope

This paper describes the flight control software of the wave-front correction system that flew on the 2009 science flight of the Sunrise balloon telescope. The software discussed here allowed fully automated operations of the wave-front sensor, communications with the adaptive optics sub-system, the pointing system, the instrument control unit and the main telescope controller. The software was developed using modern object oriented analysis and design techniques, and consists of roughly 13.000 lines of C++ code not counting code written for the on-board communication layer. The software operated error free during the 5.5 day flight.

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Author Bell, Alexander
Barthol, Peter
Berkefeld, Thomas
Ferger, Bernhard
Gandorfer, Achim
Heidecke, Frank
Knoelker, Michael
Martinez Pillet, Valentin
Schmidt, Wolfgang
Sigwarth, Michael
Solanki, Sami
Soltau, Dirk
Title, A.
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Library
Publication Date 2010-07-01T00:00:00
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Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.opensky::articles:18996
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Suggested Citation Bell, Alexander, Barthol, Peter, Berkefeld, Thomas, Ferger, Bernhard, Gandorfer, Achim, Heidecke, Frank, Knoelker, Michael, Martinez Pillet, Valentin, Schmidt, Wolfgang, Sigwarth, Michael, Solanki, Sami, Soltau, Dirk, Title, A.. (2010). Flight control software for the wave-front sensor of SUNRISE 1m balloon telescope. UCAR/NCAR - Library. http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7pn97bp. Accessed 20 May 2025.

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