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U.S. SPACECRAFT 1960s and 70s CLICK HERE
U.S. SPACECRAFT 2000 and BEYOND CLICK HERE
EVOLUTIONARY / EXPERIMENTAL IMAGERS
FOR INFORMATION ON NON-ASTRONOMY CCDS - COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, ETC. CLICK HERE
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U.S. SPACECRAFT 1980s and 90s
![Janesick: NASA Galileo 1989 CCD imager](JanePicture1.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: NASA Galileo CCD Solid-State Imaging Subsystem (SSI) camera
Space Shuttle Atlantis / STS-34 service mission
Texas Instruments 800 x 800 x 15 um virtual-phase CCD
Kovar CCD package
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)
![Janesick: NASA 1989 Galileo orbiter camera](JanePicture2.jpeg)
![Janesick: Galileo moons, Europa, Ganymede, Io and Callisto](JanePicture3.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: The four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Io
![janesick: 1989 Galileo CCD photo of Europa](JanePicture4.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECT: Europa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)
![janesick" 1989 Galileo CCD photo of Asteroid Ida](JanePicture5.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Asteroid Ida and moon Dactyl
![Janesick: Hubble wide field planetary camera (WF/PC I)](JanePicture6.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: NASA Hubble Telescope CCD Wide Field / Planetary Camera 1 (WF/PC I)
Space Shuttle Atlantis / STS-31
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
![Janesick: Hubble wide field planetary camera CCD imager](JanePicture7.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Texas Instruments three-phase 800 x 800 x 15 um CCD
Kovar CCD package
Backside illuminated (BSI) CCD
Magnesium fluoride (MgF2) window
Coronene phosphor
![janesick: Wide field /Planetary Camera I proposal](JanePicture8.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECT: WF/PC I technical proposal to NASA, science and objectives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_and_Planetary_Camera
![Janesick: wide Field / Planetgary Camer I proposal contents](JanePicture9.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECT: Contents, WF/PC I technical proposal to NASA, science and objectives
![janesick: Wide Field / P{lanetary Camera I wafwe and CCD in its package](JanePicture10.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Hubble WF/PC I three-inch silicon wafer
The KH-11 KENNEN
1970s.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Black-Espionage-National-Security/dp/0425108791
![Janesick: collection of 800 x 800 pixel CCDs sim,ilar to Hubble WF/PC I](JanePicture11.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: WF/PC I silicon chips
WF/PC I CCD shipping socket
Optical interference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film_interference
![Janesikck: Hubble camera electronics bay](JanePicture12.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: WF/PC I camera electronics
WF/PC I camera enclosure
![Janesikck: Hubble mirrolr](JanePicture13.jpeg)
Search SUBJECTS: Hubble Telescope first light image (NGC 3532)
Hubble Telescope spherical aberration
![Janesick: Hubble UV flood fix](JanePicture14.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: UV- light flood
Quantum Efficiency Hysterisis (QEH)
![Janesick: Jamesw Janesick and Jim Westphal after success of Hubble WF/PC I](JanePicture15.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECT: James Westphal - WF/PC I principle investigator
![Janesick: first Solar X-Ray CCD](JanePicture16.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Yohkoh Solar-A Solar X-ray Telescope (SXT) CCD camera
Texas Instruments 1000 x 1000 x 18 um virtual-phase CCD
Solar Corona x-ray CCD image
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohkoh
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/yohkoh.htm
![Janesick: Yohkoh Satellite](JanePicture17.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Japanese M-3sII-6 rocket launch
X-ray quantum efficiency (QE)
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/nuggets/
![Janesick: Hubble WF/PC II CCD wafer](JanePicture18.jpg)
NASA Hubble Telescope CCD Wide Field / Planetary Camera 2 (WF/PC II)
Space Shuttle Atlantis / STS-125 service mission 4
Ford Aerospace 800 x 800 x 15 um three-phase CCD
Hubble WF/PC II silicon CCD wafer
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_and_Planetary_Camera_2
![Janesick: Hubble WF/PC II deep space view of galaxies](JanePicture19.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECT: Hubble Deep View
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field
![Janesick: Hubble photo of eagle Nebula in M16](JanePicture20.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECT: Gaseous Pillars - M16
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field
![](JanePicture21.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECT: WF/PC II CCD quartz reticules (photo masks)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolithography
![](JanePicture%2022%20%20updated.png)
SEARCH SUBJECT: NASA Cosmic Unresolved Background Instrument using CCDs (CUBIC)
X-ray CCD spectrometer
Ford Aerospace thin-gate three-phase 1024 x 1024 x 18 um CCD
CUBIC CCD silicon wafer
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=934963
https://www.google.com.au/patents/US536509
![](Janepicture%2023%20updated.png)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Pegasus XL rocket (with HETE)
CCD x-ray spectra
http://www2.astro.psu.edu/xray/cubic/
http://www2.astro.psu.edu/xray/cubic/papers/cubic.cal.spie95/cubic.pcs.calibration.html
![](Skipper1.jpg)
Skipper CCD
Non destructive readout - CCD imagers
Circulator CCD
Sub electron noise floor
Reticon CCD
![](Skipper2.jpg)
For Skipper CCD design and operation refer to :
J. Janesick, Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, SPIE Press, PM 83, Bellingham, WA, (2001).
![](Skipper3.jpg)
CCD soft x-ray histogram
Photon counting
Fano limited noise performance
Floating gate technology
Cosmic Unresolved Background Instrument (CUBIC).
Dark matter CCD
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8692/bdced1586725ffbf19f78c213547102016e5.pdf
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/2518/0000/CUBIC-preflight-calibration-status/10.1117/12.218374.short
https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.131802
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883379/
https://news.fnal.gov/2017/09/hunt-light-dark-matter/
http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/hepfront18/tiffenberg/rm/jwvideo.html
![Janesick: NASA Cassini-Huygens 1997 CCD wafer](JanePicture24.jpeg)
SEARCH TOPICS: NASA Cassini-Huygens CCD Camera
Mission to Saturn and Titan
Ford Aerospace 1000 x 1000 x 12 um three-phase CCD
Cassini CCD silicon wafer
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001, Janesick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens
![Janesick: 1024 x 1024 pixel CCD imager](JanePicture25.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Titan IVB/Centaur
CCD pixels, vertical / horizontal registers and output amplifier
![Janesikck: Cassini imager design](JanePicture26.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: AutoCad CCD design
Packaged Cassini CCDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD
![Janesick: Cassini photo of Saturn](JanePicture27.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: CCD Saturn picture
Radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)
http://www.csmonitor.com/1997/1010/101097.opin.opin.1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
![Janesick Cassini photo of Saturn's north pole](JanePicture28.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECT: Saturn's north pole
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14946.html#.WGLRa1UrJOQ
![Janesick: NASA Comet Rendezvous Asteroir Flyby](JanePicture29.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: NASA Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF)
Ford Aerospace 1000 x 1000 x 12 um three-phase CCD
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Rendezvous_Asteroid_Flyby
![Janesikck: Deep Space I / Pluto CCD](JanePicture30.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: NASA Deep Space 1 (DS1)
Miniature Integrated Camera Spectrometer, MICAS
Heritage Pluto Integrated Camera Spectrometer
Reticon 1024 x 1024 x 9 um pixel three-phase CCD
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1
![Janeskick: Deep Space I Miniature Integrated Camera Spectrometer](JanePicture31.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECT: Comet Borrelly
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/deep-space-1-ds1/
http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/
![Janeskick: NASA Stardust 1999 1024 x 1024 poixel CCD wafer](JanePicture32.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: NASA Stardust
Ford Aerospace 1000 x 1000 x 12 um three-phase CCD
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)
![Janesick: Stardust photo of Comet Wild 2](JanePicture33.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: Comet Wild
Comet Wild Sampler
![Janesick: Stardust photo of comet Tempel I](JanePicture34.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: NASA Stardust New Exploration of Temple 1 (NExT)
Ford Aerospace 1000 x 1000 x 12 um three-phase CCD
Comet Temple
![Janesick: NASA MISR mission 1999 three-phase pixel imagers](JanePicture35.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: NASA Multi Imaging Spectral Radiometer (MISR)
Terra satellite
Earth resource imaging mission
Ford Aerospace 1504 x 1 x 18um x 21um three-phase pixel CCD imager
CCD thin gate technology
MISR CCD silicon wafer
Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices, 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-angle_Imaging_SpectroRadiometer
http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/
![Janesick: NASA MISR camera and imzger chip](JanePicture36.jpeg)
SEARCH SUBJECTS: MISR CCD chip
MISR CCD cameras
http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/misrInstrument/
http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/publicationFiles/Diner1998-TGRS1.pdf
![Janesick: NASA MISR imagery](JanePicture37.jpeg)
TO RETURN TO 1970s MAIN PAGE CLICK HERE
TO RETURN TO JANESICK CONTINUATION PAGE CLICK HERE
U.S. SPACECRAFT 1960s and 70s CLICK HERE
U.S. SPACECRAFT 2000 and BEYOND CLICK HERE
EVOLUTIONARY / EXPERIMENTAL IMAGERS
FOR INFORMATION ON NON-ASTRONOMY CCDS - COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, ETC. CLICK HERE
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING SPACECRAFT, THEIR CAMERAS AND IMAGERS SHOWN ON THIS SITE CLICK HERE