Session
Session II: Next on the Pad-Enterprise
Location
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract
The Active Cooling for Multispectral Earth Sensors (ACMES) program is an advanced Long-Wave IR (LWIR) remote observation Earth Science Small Satellite mission scheduled to launch in 2026 to a high-inclination 550 km Sun synchronous (SSO) orbit. ACMES will host several novel payloads and technologies, including the Hyperspectral Thermal Imager 2.0 (HyTI 2.0), the Filter Incidence Narrowband Infrared Spectrometer (FINIS), the Planar Langmuir Impedance Diagnostic (PLAID) probe, and the Active Thermal Architecture (ATA) system. ACMES will serve a one-year primary mission focused on technology demonstration, followed by a three-year science-based mission to provide valuable LWIR observations of the Earth’s surface. The ACMES satellite is currently under development at the Center for Space Engineering (CSE) at Utah State University in partnership with the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) and Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield company. ACMES is funded through the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) under an InVEST grant.
Document Type
Event
ACMES: The Next-Generation of Advanced LWIR Observations of the Earth
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
The Active Cooling for Multispectral Earth Sensors (ACMES) program is an advanced Long-Wave IR (LWIR) remote observation Earth Science Small Satellite mission scheduled to launch in 2026 to a high-inclination 550 km Sun synchronous (SSO) orbit. ACMES will host several novel payloads and technologies, including the Hyperspectral Thermal Imager 2.0 (HyTI 2.0), the Filter Incidence Narrowband Infrared Spectrometer (FINIS), the Planar Langmuir Impedance Diagnostic (PLAID) probe, and the Active Thermal Architecture (ATA) system. ACMES will serve a one-year primary mission focused on technology demonstration, followed by a three-year science-based mission to provide valuable LWIR observations of the Earth’s surface. The ACMES satellite is currently under development at the Center for Space Engineering (CSE) at Utah State University in partnership with the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) and Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield company. ACMES is funded through the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) under an InVEST grant.
