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29 June 1992 The Coronal Ultraviolet Berkeley Spectrometer (CUBS)
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We describe an instrument package to remotely measure thermospheric, exospheric, and plasmaspheric structure and composition. This instrument was flown aboard the second test flight of the Black Brant XII sounding rocket on December 5, 1989, which attained an apogee of 1460 km. The experiment package consisted of a spectrophotometer to measure He I 584 A, O II 834 A, O I 989 A, hydrogen Lyman beta (1025 A), hydrogen Lyman alpha (1216 A), and O I 1304 A transitions, and a photometer to measure the He II 304 A emission. The optical design of the spectrophotometer was identical to that of the Berkeley Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Airglow Rocket Spectrometer payload, flown on September 30, 1988 aboard the maiden flight of the Black Brant XII rocket. We present the initial data analysis and describe directions we will go toward the completion of our study.
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Brett C. Bush, Daniel M. Cotton, and Supriya Chakrabarti "The Coronal Ultraviolet Berkeley Spectrometer (CUBS)", Proc. SPIE 1745, Instrumentation for Planetary and Terrestrial Atmospheric Remote Sensing, (29 June 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60619
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KEYWORDS
Sensors

Spectrophotometry

Hydrogen

Scattering

Rockets

Mirrors

Spectroscopy

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