The increased sensitivity of space-based sensors has imposed greater stray light performance goals on telescope design. To meet the demand, a stray light test station for measuring point source transmission (PST) has been built with a lower threshold and higher accuracy. The station is nearly all black with dimensions of 28m long by 8m wide by 9m high. it is coupled with a double cylindrical chamber that reflects the specular light away from the instrument under test. The chamber is a Class 6 cleanroom. The station will allow measuring the instruments with up to a 1 meters diameter, and to perform these measurements at visible and infrared wavelengths. The instrument under test will allow to scan at azimuth angles ±110°, and at elevation ±15°. The tests were performed to estimate stray light characteristics of two optical instruments. Test results demonstrated PST performance below 1×10-7 at visible wavelengths, and 1×10-6 at infrared wavelengths.
The calibration work was important to the development of star sensor, improving the accuracy of star simulator was very important for the calibration of star sensor. In reality, being limited in manufacturing technology, assembling and testing facility and so on, it was very difficult to achieve the precision of design theory, especially the star angular distance. In this paper, from the accuracy of angular distance of star simulator, combined with the installation practice, through real-time monitoring of theodolite, and put forward a quantitative method of focusing. Experimentation have shown that the method can realize the accurately focusing of star simulator, all the angle distance error finally were less than 7.72″, and can improve the installation efficiency.
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