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Flight 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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