Abstract
We report on the design, construction and testing of a wide-beam continuous solar simulator which can be used to simulate air mass zero (AM0) solar irradiance at fluxes of up to 6.5 solar constants. The instrument has been designed to produce a steady collimated beam with a homogeneous flux distribution across an aperture area of diameter 290 mm. The instrument is being used to test hardware designed to fly on the ESA/JAXA space mission to Mercury, BepiColombo. It has applications for other spacecraft missions which envisage passing inside the orbit of Venus (e.g. Solar Orbiter).
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