The CIRRIS experiment
Abstract
The Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrumentation for Shuttle (CIRRIS), is designed for high-resolution measurement of atmospheric emissions in the long-wavelength infrared (2.5-25 microns). The CIRRIS data, which will be used to construct a definitive model of the physics of both the quiescent and the distributed atmosphere, will complement infrared background sensor (IRBS) earth-limb probe measurements planned as part of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL) Background Measurements Program. Two sensor packages are being developed for the CIRRIS experiments: the first sensor will use the high-resolution interferometer-spectrometer HIRIS in conjunction with a high off-axis rejection telescope; the second, a new interferometer combined with a field-shared radiometer and plane arrays mated to an improved telescope with a larger collecting area. Operating at different altitudes, the CIRRIS packages will carry out a two-fold mission of surveillance and intercept.
- Publication:
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AIAA, Aerospace Sciences Meeting
- Pub Date:
- January 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981aiaa.meetQU...S
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Radiation;
- Cryogenics;
- Infrared Interferometers;
- Instrument Packages;
- Radiance;
- Space Shuttle Payloads;
- High Resolution;
- Infrared Detectors;
- Radiation Measurement;
- Space Surveillance (Spaceborne);
- Spaceborne Telescopes;
- Spacecraft Instruments;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation