ShareFlight experience with the Infrared Background Signature Survey (IBSS) cryostat.
Author(s) : LANGE G., BIRNER R., PULKERT G., LIEB H.
Type of article: Article
Summary
The IBSS experiment was launched successfully in may 1991 with the US Space Shuttle Mission STS39. The retrievable satellite SPAS II carried a multitude of electro-optical sensors which covered the spectral range from ultraviolet to mid-infrared (IR). The dominating sensor was a cryogenically cooled IR telescope with two focal plane instruments equipped with detectors operating in the wavelength range from 2.5 to 22.6 micrometers. Cooling of the entire sensor was achieved by a 300 dm3 supercritical helium dewar.
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- Original title: Flight experience with the Infrared Background Signature Survey (IBSS) cryostat.
- Record ID : 1994-0052
- Languages: English
- Source: Cryogenics - vol. 33 - n. 4
- Publication date: 1993/04
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- Themes: Other applications of cryogenic temperatures
- Keywords: Infrared; Helium; Cryostat; Space; Dewar; Cryogenics
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- Author(s) : BROOKS W. F.
- Date : 1986
- Languages : English
- Source: Cryogenics - vol. 26 - n. 2
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- Author(s) : MORD A. J.
- Date : 1986
- Languages : English
- Source: Cryogenics - vol. 26 - n. 2
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- Author(s) : NAST T. C.
- Date : 1986
- Languages : English
- Source: Cryogenics - vol. 26 - n. 2
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- Author(s) : HUNG R. J., PAN H. L.
- Date : 1995/08
- Languages : English
- Source: JSME int. J., B - vol. 38 - n. 3
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- Author(s) : MURAKAMI M.
- Date : 1990
- Languages : Japanese
- Source: Cryogenics/ Cryog. Eng. - vol. 25 - n. 6
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