Calculation of the parameters of a spectrophotometric system for measuring airglow brightness in the upper atmosphere from space

Abstract

We present energy calculations for the basic parameters of a spectrophotometric system designed for recording the vertical distributions of the spectral brightness of hydroxyl airglow and the brightness of airglow from the green line of atomic oxygen in the upper layer of the Earth's atmosphere. We consider the scheme for conducting the “Hydroxyl” space experiment with instrumentation in the spectrophotometric system and methods for measuring the brightnesses of the indicated airglow components in sessions for observation of the Earth's night upper atmosphere in the altitude range 80–110 km from on board the International Space Station (ISS).