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.
NASA's Spartan program was based on the idea of a simple, low-cost platform
deployed from a space shuttle in orbit for a 2-3 day flight, then recovered
and returned to Earth. The platform allows the experiments to get out of
the messy shuttle environment and frees it of any shuttle pointing
constraints.
Spartan-1 was deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-51G) on
20 June 1985 and retrieved 45.5 hours later.
The X-ray detectors aboard the Spartan platform were sensitive to the
energy range 1-12 keV. The instrument scanned its target with narrowly
collimated (5 arcmin x 3 degrees) gas scintillation proportional counters.
There were 2 identical sets of counters, each having ~ 660 sq-cm effective
area. Counts were accumulated for 0.812 s into 128 energy channels. The
energy resolution was 16% at 6 keV.
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.
