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The Solar Wind Generation Experiment for Spartan Mission 201

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J.L. Kohl ,
H. Weiser ,
G.L. Withbroe  and
R.H. Munro
J.L. Kohl
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA 02138
H. Weiser
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA 02138
G.L. Withbroe
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA 02138
R.H. Munro
Affiliation:
High Altitude Observatory Boulder, CO 80307

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The Solar Wind Generation Experiment consists of a UV Coronal Spectrometer (UVCS) provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a White Light Coronagraph (WLC) of the High Altitude Observatory. The instruments are similar to those flown together on three sounding rocket flights [1,2,3] but they have enhanced capabilities to take advantage of Spartan’s 27 hour observing period. The two instruments comprise a payload for Spartan 2, which is a self-contained instrument carrier that provides on-board data storage, power, thermal control, sun pointing and an observing program sequencer. Spartan is launched and deployed by the Shuttle and spends about 27 orbits in a detached mode before it is recovered and returned to the ground for data tape retrieval and post-flight instrument calibration.

Type
Session 1. Solar Astrophysics
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 86: Eighth International Colloquium on Ultraviolet and X-ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas , 1984 , pp. 29 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © Naval Research Laboratory 1984. Publication courtesy of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.

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