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Completed TRL 5 (started at 2, targeting 7)
GRIFEX is a 3-unit (3U, 10x10x30cm) CubeSat intended to verify the spaceborne performance of a state-of-the-art readout integrated circuit (ROIC) / Focal Plane Array (FPA) with in-pixel digitization and an unprecedented frame rate of 16 kHz for imaging interferometry instruments and missions. The technology specifically targets the requirements of the GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) mission concept, and the ROIC is based on a 2008 ESTO Advanced Component Technology (ACT) investment. Once validated, this technology could enable a mission like GEO-CAPE to make hourly high spatial and spectral resolution measurements of rapidly changing atmospheric chemistry and pollution from geostationary Earth orbit.
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