NSSDCA ID: 1962-006A-04
Mission Name: OSO 1This experiment was designed to study temporal variations in 1- to 8-A solar X-ray flux in support of the 10- to 400-A solar spectrometer experiment (62-006A-01). The detector consisted of a pair of xenon-filled ion chambers with 0.015-cm-thick beryllium windows, of 3.38-sq cm area each. The detectors were connected in parallel and mounted in the pointed portion of the OSO platform so that they monitored the sun. The sampling rate was approximately once every 10 s. Gas pressure was 760 mm Hg, and chamber depth at normal incidence was 2.19 cm. The experiment operated normally from launch through May 15, 1962. Additional data were collected through May 1964 on a real-time basis whenever the spacecraft was within range of a receiving station.
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Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Mr. William A. White | Principal Investigator | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |