ROSAT.
Abstract
The scientific payload of the ROSAT spacecraft consists of a large X-ray telescope (6 - 100 Å) and a smaller Wide Field XUV Camera (60 - 300 Å) which are looking parallel. A primary objective of the mission is to perform the first all-sky survey with an imaging X-ray telescope. The main ROSAT telescope consists of a fourfold nested mirror system with 83 cm aperture having three focal plane instruments. The Wide Field XUV Camera has an aperture of 58 cm and microchannel plate detectors as focal instruments. ROSAT will be launched by the Space Shuttle in mid-1987.
- Publication:
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Physica Scripta Volume T
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0031-8949/1984/T7/051
- Bibcode:
- 1984PhST....7..209T
- Keywords:
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- Space Missions:X-Ray Astronomy;
- X-Ray Astronomy:Space Missions