The University of Colorado's ultraviolet spectrometer instrument carried on the Pioneer Venus Orbiter spacecraft is a 125-mm f/5 Ebert-Fastie design with a 250-mm Cassegrain telescope. The instrument has extensive logic to control the grating motor drive and to adapt the basic spectrometer to the constraints and opportunities of the mission. Success has been achieved in reconciling the conflicting requirements of spectroscopic, limb profile, and imaging observations. A description of the instrument operating techniques is given together with representative results of all three types.
Design and operation of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter ultraviolet spectrometer
1980-01-01
Miscellaneous
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English
NTRS | 1974
NTIS | 1974
Pioneer Venus Orbiter Contributions to a Revised Venus Reference Ionosphere
Online Contents | 1997
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British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
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