Re: Integral

From: Vitek, Antonin (avitek@lib.cas.cz)
Date: Sat Aug 31 2002 - 10:12:16 EDT

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    Jonathan T Wojack wrote:
    > 
    > > For anyone who watched contour in earth orbit.
    > >
    > > So Far On Oct 17, a russian proton rocket will place the Intergral
    > > spacecraft into orbit.
    > >
    > > The orbit of intergral is going to be approx 10,000 by 153,000
    > > kilometer's (
    > > km ) inclined 51.6 degrees to the equator.
    > >
    > > They plan to increase it's perigee to 31,000 km during 5 years , and
    > > the
    > > inclination will change to 86.5 after being in orbit 5 years.
    > >
    > > Since this is a bigger satellite then contour, there will be a
    > > better chance
    > > of seeing it. Unlike contour, it will stay in earth orbit.
    > >
    > > So a high earth orbit object to observe soon :)
    > 
    > Interesting....
    > 
    > What is the purose/mission of Integral (a science or technology
    > demonstration mission, I would assume) ?  Is there an "official" web page
    > for Integral?
    > 
    Integral is acronym for INTErnational Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
    
    http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/integral/
    
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