@inproceedings{8c936c8ac0774c8fb8f47ed5497b92ee,
title = "Sun-synchronous orbit mission for passively cooled reconnaissance of the interstellar medium",
abstract = "The Marshall Space Flight Center, in a teaming arrangement with the University of Florida- Gainesville and the Joint Astrophysics Laboratory- Hawaii, has completed a comprehensive investigation into the feasibility of a low-cost infrared (IR) space astronomy mission. This mission would map the emission of diatomic hydrogen in our galaxy at two or three previously inaccessible mid-IR wavelengths and provide information on the temperatures. The feasibility of the low-cost mission hinged on whether a thermal design could be found that would allow sufficient passive cooling of the telescope to eliminate the need for a large, expensive dewar. An approach has been found that can provide telescope temperatures on the order of 50 K, which makes the mission feasible at low cost in low-Earth orbit (LEO).",
author = "Campbell, \{Jonathan W.\} and John Fikes and Mark Gerry and Jim McCarter and Harold Blevins and Bill Jones and Don Williams and Holly Chandler and Allen Green and Terri Schmitt and Linda Vestal and Belinda Wright and John Jackson and Greg Schunk and Ken Swaim and Susan Spencer and Telesco, \{Charles M.\} and Seppo Laine and Hawarden, \{Tim G.\} and Taylor, \{Charles R.\} and Chipman, \{Russell A.\} and Parmley, \{Richard T.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1995 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved.; Space Programs and Technologies Conference, 1995 ; Conference date: 26-09-1995 Through 28-09-1995",
year = "1995",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781623565244",
series = "1995 Space Programs and Technologies Conference",
publisher = "American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA",
pages = "1--10",
booktitle = "Space Programs and Technologies Conference",
}