Real-Time Simulation Of The SAX Spacecraft AOCS

T. L. P. Baud. (1995), JBIS, 48, pp.261-264

Refcode: 1995.48.261

Abstract:

The mission of the SAX satellite is to perform observations of celestial X-ray sources in the 0.1 to 300 keV energy range. The pay load consists of a variety of instruments designed to operate in this region of the spectrum. The instruments include low and medium energy concentrator spectrometers, a high pressure scintillator proportional counter and wide field cameras. With these instruments the SAX spacecraft will carry out spectral, spectroscopic and timing measurements of celestial X -ray sources together with a full-sky survey in the 2 to 30 keV energy range in order to investigate long term source variability and determination of transient sources.