Meteorix camera tests for space-based meteor observations

Nicolas Rambaux (1) , Jérémie Vaubaillon (1) , Sophie Derelle (2) , Marc Jacquart (2) , Maxime Millet (3) , Lionel Lacassagne (3) , Andrea Petreto (3) , Pierre Simoneau (2) , K Baillié (1) , J Desmars (1) , Dimitri Galayko (4) , Roselyne Chotin (4)

1 IMCCE - Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides
2 DOTA, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay [Palaiseau]
3 ALSOC - Architecture et Logiciels pour Systèmes Embarqués sur Puce
4 CIAN - Circuits Intégrés Numériques et Analogiques

Meteorix is a Universitary CubeSat dedicated to be a demonstrator for the detection and characterisation of meteors and space debris. Its payload is an onboard camera and detection chain. Usually, cameras on CubeSat are used for daylight observations and this proceeding present some tests realized with a sensitive CMOS camera, which is also used in the martian rovers for imaging purposes. In-lab tests were conducted to measure the spectral response. First on-sky images were performed during the 2020 Geminids meteor shower from the Paris area. Follow-up tests were performed from Observatoire de Haute-Provence during the 2021 η-Aquariids meteor shower. Capabilities and needed modifications for meteor detection were identified.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Automatique / Robotique; Mathématique discrète [cs.DM]; Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]; Arithmétique des ordinateurs; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Algorithme et structure de données [cs.DS]; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement des images [eess.IV]; Robotique [cs.RO]

Nicolas Rambaux, Jérémie Vaubaillon, Sophie Derelle, Marc Jacquart, Maxime Millet, et al.. Meteorix camera tests for space-based meteor observations. WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, 2021, 49 (5), pp.142-144. ⟨hal-03690977⟩