The ECLIPSE flight hardware is shown prior to its delivery to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in March 2022. The box on the upper left in the image is the Cross-track Scanner (CTS), which views beneath the ISS and produces maps of the airglow emission. The sensor on the upper right is the Aft Limb-Scanner (ALS), which makes images of the ionospheric airglow behind the ISS in its orbit plane. The blackened rectangular structures on the boxes are the sunshade baffles around the openings to the SUVM mirrors, which are at the center of the baffles. The box near the bottom center is the Mission Operations Electronics (MOE), which controls the instruments and accepts commands from the ISS and relays data back to the ISS during the mission. The measuring tape in the image shows the size of the MOE box as approximately 11 inches wide.

Image Courtesy of: Naval Research Laboratory

jsc2022e091372 (12/7/2022) --- The STP-H9-ECLIPSE flight hardware is shown prior to its delivery to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in March 2022. The box on the upper left in the image is the Cross-track Scanner (CTS), which views beneath the ISS and produces maps of the airglow emission. The sensor on the upper right is the Aft Limb-Scanner (ALS), which makes images of the ionospheric airglow behind the ISS in its orbit plane. The blackened rectangular structures on the boxes are the sunshade baffles around the openings to the SUVM mirrors, which are at the center of the baffles. The box near the bottom center is the Mission Operations Electronics (MOE), which controls the instruments and accepts commands from the ISS and relays data back to the ISS during the mission. The measuring tape in the image shows the size of the MOE box as approximately 11 inches wide. Image courtesy of the Naval Research Laboratory.