NSF Firefly CubeSat

2009 highlights

Firefly student team at GSFCSummer 2009

• Back (L-R): R. Fabre, D. Rowland, K. Bruno, A. Willingham, S. Kholdebarin• Front (L-R): M. Rivera, J. Osorio, H. Vo, J. Klenzing, L. Ramsey, J. Hill, E. Alicea

Firefly Optical Photo Diode (OPD)

Firefly’s OPD uses two wide-band filters which respond to TLEs and lightning, and two narrowband filters (centered on 777.5 nm) for background rejection and lightning-only detection

Firefly’s OPD and VLF receiver board (Engineering unit).

The optical detector chain will be calibrated at UNH.

Student-led GRD development at GSFC

GEANT modeling of phoswich scintillator (J. Klenzing)