California Institute of Technology

Thomas S Pagano

James Patrick McGuire, Jr

Suresh Seshadri

James K Wolfenbarger

Kim A Aaron

Fabien Nicaise

Dean L Johnson

Joseph Sauvageau

Curt A Henry

Nasrat A Raouf

A CubeSat compatible spectrometer including a slit having a first length and first width; a diffraction grating; and a two dimensional focal plane array electromagnetically coupled to the diffraction grating. The 2D focal plane array includes an array of pixels including a plurality of sets of pixels. Diffraction of electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the slit by the diffraction grating forms a plurality of beams, each of the beams comprising a different one of the bands of the wavelengths in the electromagnetic radiation, and each of the beams transmitted onto a different one of the sets of the pixels.

Cubesat infrared atmospheric sounder (CIRAS)

A multi-spectral imager useful for weather mapping, comprising an array of filters on at least one focal plane array (FPA) including pixels. Each of the filters are associated with a different set of the pixels, and each of the filters transmit a portion of electromagnetic radiation, comprising a different band of wavelengths, to the set of the pixels associated with the filter. A circuit connected to the pixels reads out a signal outputted from each of a plurality of different pixels in the set and outputs the signals to an adder. The adder sums the signals from each of the plurality of different pixels in the set to form a sum used for generating a weather map.

Geostationary earth orbit (GEO) earth multispectral mapper (GEMM)

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Thousand Oaks, CA, United States of America

Thomas S Pagano