HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.

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ORS 3

* Mission Overview

ORS 3 (Octahedral Research Satellite 3), also known as Environmental Research Satellite-17 (ERS-17), was launched on 20 July 1965. It was put into an elliptical orbit with apogee 112,694 km, perigee 153 km, at an inclination of 34.4 degrees. The orbital period was 2608 minutes. The satellite was spin stabilized with a spin rate of ~6 rpm. The mission ended when the transmitter ceased function on 3 November 1965. Approximately 1500 hours of data were obtained.

* Instrumentation

A set of five detectors were onboard. These included a charged particle detector, as well as instruments to measure X-rays, gamma-rays, and cosmic rays in the near Earth environment.

The X-ray detectors consisted of three EON 6213 Geiger tubes mounted along 3 mutually perpendicular axes. The conical field of view of each detector was 50 degrees half angle. The data were sampled for 4.5 seconds every 72 seconds. The system was sensitive to X-rays in the range 1-14 Angstroms. The system failed on 15 September 1965. The primary object of investigation was the Sun.

An omnidirectional phoswich-type scintillator was used to measure gamma- rays between 30 keV and 10 MeV. It also provided a measure of the total cosmic-ray flux for protons greater than 30 MeV. There were 5 energy channels: 0.03-0.1, 0.1-0.3, 0.3-1.0, 1.0-3.0, and 3.0-10.0 MeV. Data were sampled for 4.5 s every 72 s. A charged particle rejection shield failed at launch, and amplifier saturation caused the integral channel rate to be nearly 0 by 5 August 1965. These, and other similar system malfunctions, made the data very hard to interpret.

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HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.