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English: The OSO 2 satellite. The OSO 2 platform consisted of a sail section, which pointed two experiments continuously toward the sun, and a wheel section, which spun about an axis perpendicular to the pointing direction of the sail and carried six experiments. Attitude adjustment was performed by gas jets. A pointing control system permitted the pointed experiments to scan the region of the sun in a 40- by 40-arc-min raster pattern. Data were simultaneously recorded on tape and transmitted by PCM/PM telemetry. A command system provided for 70 ground-based commands. The spacecraft performed normally until the pitch gas supply neared exhaustion on November 6, 1965. The spacecraft was then placed in a stowed condition. The transmitter was commanded on intermittently until March 3, 1966, and then on a weekly schedule until June 1, 1966, when it ceased operation. For more information, see A. W. L. Ball, Spaceflight, v. 12, p. 244, 1970. |
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Source | NASA's HEASARC: Observatories, Goddard Spaceflight Center, Observatories, Orbiting Solar Observatories Gallery |
Author | HEASARC Director: Dr. Alan P. Smale HEASARC Associate Director: Dr. Roger Brissenden Responsible NASA Official: Phil Newman Web Curator: Meredith Gibb |
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Experiment Name Spacecraft Name Principal Investigator(s) Solar X-ray Bursts OSO 2 Chubb, Talbot Corona White Light OSO 2 Tousey, Richard Zodiacal Light Monitor OSO 2 Ney, Edward Cosmic Gamma (100-1000 MeV) Detector OSO 2 Leavitt, Christopher Gamma Ray OSO 2 Frost, Kenneth Solar UV Spectrometer OSO 2 Hallam, Kenneth Thermal Radiation Emissivity OSO 2 Neel, Carr
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