Onboard scanning system for photodetector with time delay and charge accumulation
The study describes scanning space-based assets which, by means of a flat scanning mirror and an optical system, provides the transformation of the object space into a temporal sequence of electronic signals of a photodetector with a time delay and charge accumulation. High accuracy of photodetector elements polling and scanning of the object space is due to the movement of the scanning mirror according to the indications of a non-contact interferometric angle sensor. The reciprocating rotary scanning by a flat mirror is kinetically compensated by the opposite motion of the flywheel, which minimizes residual perturbations on the space platform. To reduce the impulse energy consumption and the time of reversal between the scanning mirror and the compensating flywheel, magnetic reversal energy recuperators are used.