Planned investigation of infrared emissions associated with the induced spacecraft glow: A shuttle infrared glow experiment (SIRGE)
Abstract
The characteristics of infrared molecular emissions induced by energetic collisions between ambient atmospheric species and surfaces in Earth orbit are investigated, using a low-nitrogen-cooled filter wheel photometer covering the wavelength range 0.9-.5 microns with a resolving power Lambda/Delta Lambda of approximately 100. This resolving power is sufficient for identification of the molecular or atomic fluorescent spaces causing the glow.
- Publication:
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Spacecraft Glow
- Pub Date:
- September 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985scgl.work..250M
- Keywords:
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- Collision Parameters;
- Infrared Radiation;
- Infrared Spectroscopy;
- Luminescence;
- Molecular Collisions;
- Space Shuttle Orbiters;
- Spacecraft Glow;
- Atomic Excitations;
- Cryogenic Cooling;
- Fluorescence;
- Liquid Nitrogen;
- Molecular Excitation;
- Instrumentation and Photography