A balloon-borne, 1.2 meter Cassegrain telescope with a servo-controlled chopping secondary mirror has been developed and used to survey the Galactic Plane at submillimeter wavelengths. The telescope pointing system uses a gyroscope as the primary stabilization reference and makes use of microprocessors for pointing control, on-board data collection, and telemetry formatting. A description of the telescope, multi-channel liquid-helium-cooled focal plane and the aspect and orientation subsystems are presented.


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    Title :

    A large aperture balloon-borne telescope for a submillimeter wavelength survey of the galactic plane


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    Publication date :

    1983-01-01



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    Miscellaneous


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    English


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