Paper 14145-136
Paper 14145-136
The Instrument Control Unit for the Arrakihs mission
5 July 2026 • 17:30 - 19:00 CEST | Room B4-M3
Abstract
The Arrakihs Electronics Box (EBOX), instrument control subsystem for the Arrakihs instrument is presented in this contribution. The EBOX includes redundant Power Supply Units, redundant high-performance quad-core Data Processing Units, redundant milliKelvins stability Thermal Control Units, two Near-Infrared Interfaces to the NIR detector chain processing guide stars windows and full frame pre-processing for non-destructive read-out scheme and a multi-core application software handling the fine-guidance system, multi-accumulation computation and real-time compression.
Presenter
Institut für Weltraumforschung (Austria)
Dr. Gabriel Giono is the junior group leader of the onboard computing at the Space Research Institute (IWF) in Graz, Austria. He is the project lead for a number of data processing units on ESA mission such as Comet Interceptor and ATHENA. He is also the electronics lead for the Arrakihs instrument and is responsible for its electronic box subsystem.