空间光学技术研究室知识库

The Earth 2.0 (ET) mission is a space mission in China which will be operated at the Earth-Sun L2 orbit with a designed lifetime longer than 4 years. ET's scientific payload consist of six 30cm diameter transit telescopes with each field of view of 500 square degrees and one 35 cm diameter microlensing telescope with a field of view of 4 square degrees. Each telescope is equipped with a camera with 2x2 9Kx9K CMOS detectors, and Front-end Electronics (FEE). Each transit telescope is an f/1.57 eight-lens refractive optical system while the microlensing telescope is an f/17.2 catadioptric optical system with diffraction-limited design. The diameter of 90% Encircled Energy (EE90) for transit telescopes is within 5x5 pixels while the FWHM of PSF for the microlensing telescope is less than 0.78 arcsec. Fine Guidance Sensors are mounted at the four edges of the CMOS camera. All seven telescopes are fixed on a common mounting reference plate, and a large sun shield is used to block the heat flow from the Sun and provide a stable thermal environment for the telescopes. It also blocks straylight form the Sun, Earth, and the Moon. Each telescope has an additional top hood to block straylight incident at a large angle while the top hood is also used as a radiator to cool the detectors to below 40 degrees C. With PID heating loops, each telescope will work at -30 +/- 0.3 degrees C while the detectors work at -40 +/- 0.1 degrees C. Details of the conceptual design for the scientific payload will be presented.