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    Publication Date: 2011-08-17
    Description: The Magsat satellite was launched on Oct. 30, 1979 into a sun-synchronous dawn-dusk orbit, of 97 deg inclination, 350 km perigee, and 550 km apogee. It contains a precision vector magnetometer and a cesium-vapor scalar magnetometer at the end of a 6-m long graphite epoxy scissors boom. The magnetometers are accurate to 2 nanotesla. A pair of star cameras are used to define the body orientation to 10 arc sec rms. An 'attitude transfer system' measures the orientation of the magnetometer sensors relative to the star cameras to approximately 5 arc sec rms. The satellite position is determined to 70 meters rms by Doppler tracking. The overall objective is to determine each component of the earth's vector magnetic field to an accuracy of 6 nanotesla rms. The Magsat satellite gathers a complete picture of the earth's magnetic field every 12 hours. The vector components are sampled 16 times per second with a resolution of 0.5 nanotesla. The data will be used by the U.S. Geological Survey to prepare 1980 world magnetic field charts and to detect large-scale magnetic anomalies in the earth's crust for use in planning resource exploration strategy.
    Keywords: LAUNCH VEHICLES AND SPACE VEHICLES
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-16
    Description: SAS-3 uses a reaction wheel to provide torque to control the spin rate. If the wheel speed becomes too great or too small, it must be restored to its nominal rate by momentum dumping which is done by magnetic torquing against the earth's magnetic field by the satellite's magnetic coils. A small rate-integrating gyro is used to sense the spin rate so that closed loop control of the spin rate can be achieved. These various systems are described in detail including the reaction wheel system, the gyro system, along with control modes (spin rate control and the star lock mode).
    Keywords: SPACECRAFT DESIGN, TESTING AND PERFORMANCE
    Type: APL Technical Digest; 14; July-Sep
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The Shuttle is scheduled to carry the Hopkins UV Telescope (HUT) aloft in 1986. HUT will be one of three telescopes on the mission and will be sensitive to the 450-1800 A interval. Its primary goals will be observations of Halley's Comet, the planets, distant galaxies and quasars. It will be controlled by Spacelab personnel and features a 0.9 m primary mirror, a spectrograph on the focal plane, and an Si intensified image television camera for on-line image monitoring. The main component of the spectrograph will be a 1024 channel self-scanning Reticon photodiode array coupled by optic fibers to the microchannel detector plates. HUT is presently undergoing qualification testing.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (ISSN 0270-5214); 6; 28-37
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-13
    Description: The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) is a 90-cm f/2 prime focus telescope and spectrometer with a photon-counting microchannel plate detector designed to obtain moderate resolution (wavelength interval, approximately 4 A) spectrophotometry of faint (visual magnitude, less than approximately 17) objects in the far-ultraviolet spectral region (approximately 900-1700 A). The HUT will be mounted on the Spacelab Instrument Pointing System and will be operated by a Payload Specialist using a field acquisition TV system to assist in locating targets. The initial flight of the HUT, expected in 1984 or 1985, will be devoted primarily to the study of quasars and active galactic nuclei, emphasizing the 900-1200 A spectral region which is inaccessible with other existing or currently planned orbiting instruments.
    Keywords: ASTRONOMY
    Type: Seminar on Shuttle pointing of electro-optical experiments; Feb 10, 1981 - Feb 13, 1981; Los Angeles, CA
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    Publication Date: 2019-05-17
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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