French, Soviets decide to launch Sigma space telescope
Abstract
France and the U.S.S.R. are cooperating in a gamma-radiation astronomy project called Sigma (gamma imaging system resolution with aleatory masking). The mission of Sigma is to map the heavens in the soft gamma range and in the hard X-ray range.
- Publication:
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West Europe Rept.: Sci. and Technol., No. 134 (JPRS-82686)
- Pub Date:
- November 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983wers.rept....3.
- Keywords:
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- International Cooperation;
- Soviet Spacecraft;
- Spaceborne Telescopes;
- Gamma Rays;
- High Resolution;
- Venus (Planet);
- X Ray Astronomy;
- Astronomy