@inproceedings{4d6ea35548d44069bd6581e19972113a,
title = "FIREBall-2 2023: flight communications performance",
abstract = "The balloon-borne UV telescope Faint Intergalactic Red-shifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2) was launched from Fort Sumner, NM on September 25, 2023, for its second attempted flight. The flight was unexpectedly terminated at 10 hours due to a mechanical issue, and no science data was obtained; however, this short flight provided an excellent opportunity to test the in-flight communications system. Testing the communication system pre-flight was challenging, and an accurate simulation of signal reception and communication errors expected during flight was not possible. From launch to landing, only a single packet was dropped. Had the flight continued for the expected duration, the success up to early termination gives confidence that the communications systems would have continued to meet our expectations. While this test was highly successful, some areas for improvement were identified and will be addressed before FIREBall-2's next flight.",
keywords = "commanding, data, decoding, downlink, encoding, telecommunications, telemetry, uplink",
author = "Greyson Davis and Keri Hoadley and Jared Termini and Aguirre, {Fernando Cruz} and Philippe Balard and Nicolas Bray and Ignacio Cevallos-Aleman and Erika Hamden and Gillian Kyne and Zeren Lin and Martin, {D. Christopher} and Drew Miles and Bruno Millard and Shouleh Nikzad and Vincent Picouet and David Schiminovich and Meghna Sitaram and David Valls-Gabaud",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 SPIE.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray ; Conference date: 16-06-2024 Through 21-06-2024",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1117/12.3019120",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "{den Herder}, {Jan-Willem A.} and Shouleh Nikzad and Kazuhiro Nakazawa",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024",
}