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A New Advanced Extreme Ultraviolet Optics Free Spectrometer
The Space Sciences Center is currently working (year two of two) on the Project to design and build a new OFS (NASA grant NASA-NNX07AN37G; USC# 53-4882-4640). The laboratory design is about to be fabricated at the USC mechanical shop. After assembling the focusing system, laboratory tests
with EUV monochromator will begin in Jan 2009.
Degradation-Free Spectrometers (DFS) for Solar Physics
Work is currently in the first year of the three-year Project (NASA-NNX08BA12G; USC# 53-4882-5920). SSC is underway to optimize the existing
designs of DFSs to improve the efficiency and to reduce the size and weight of the instruments. Work to implement the electronics of these two new spectrometers to the existing CAL-SO payload
was started in summer of 2008.
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