Multi-aperture, non-Littrow echelle array grating spectrometer configuration


Optique et Instruments de Précision (OIP) Sensor Systems


Compact and lightweight all-reflective imaging grating spectrometer


Single chip microcontroller (C8051F022) of the Silicon Laboratories Company


Up to 40 degrees during the first two years of operations


2.1 - 2.8 km in flight direction, 1.2 - 0.7 km in cross track direction


High Precision Ocean Altimetry reference mission


10º-170º with respect to the spin axis by 30º in azimuth


SSDL ground station at Stanford University


WINCS (Winds-Ion-Neutral Composition Suite)


3.74 - 15.4 µm for the array grating spectrometer (IR bands)


PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) and GSLV-MkIII (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle)


METOC (Meteorological/Oceanographic) Program Office of SPAWAR


SwRI (Southwest Research Institute), San Antonio, TX, USA


UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)


Almost full-sky coverage for brief events


Largest satellite test facility in Europe


Institute of Aerospace Engineering of TU Dresden, Germany


Off-axis three mirror anastigmat type (TMA)


Rowland Circle style imaging spectrograph


Morehead University, Morehead, KY, USA and GAUSS


NASA Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development (H-TIDeS) program grant


High School Students of Geymonat (Tradate, VA, Italy)


CTIP (Compact Tiny Ionospheric Photometer)


64% during the first two years of the mission


Mounted to two of the four deployable solar panels


Aligned with the Rosetta payload line of sight


26º starting along the spin axis by about 3º in azimuth


Nickel-cobalt alloy with iridium coating


4 K with a scene at 185 K, 1 K with a scene at 300 K


Build the satellite and collect the data from it


RAL, UK (British Aerospace as prime contractor); CRPE, France, and CSIRO, Australia


Coordinated with pulsing by the magnetorquers


Cannot point to sources closer than 50º to the sun and to the anti-sun during nominal lifetime, 60º if eclipse seasons and extended lifetime


Brazilian software house located on the campus of UFSM (Federal University of Santa Maria)


Vertically and to either side of the UARS observatory


Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Oceansat-2 scatterometer known as OSCAT


Ozone, nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde


Conventional radar-altimeter mode, advanced SAR mode


Telespazio's Fucino Space Center in Italy


ESA’s ESTEC testing facilities in the Netherlands


70 quadrillion times stronger than that of Earth


Up to 30 degrees during the extended mission phase


Three-mirror segmented telescope assembly


CTECS (Compact Total Electron Content Sensor) and a micro dosimeter


Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)


SwRI (Southwest Research Institute) and the University of New Hampshire in cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences


SOSA (Slovak Organization for Space Activities )


ESA (European Space Agency), CNSA (China National Space Administration)


CSC (Compact Spherical Coil) triaxial fluxgate magnetometer


Within ±15º about the roll axis (or ±180º about the yaw axis)


183 GHz, 243 GHz, 325 GHz, 448 GHz and 664 GHz


MSSL (Mullard Space Science Laboratory) of Belgium