Mission profiles and objectives of the Spartan Shuttle payload are described. Spartan was designed to provide extended observations normally carried out for only a few minutes using sounding rockets. The payload will be placed in co-orbit with the Orbiter by the RMS arm and controlled by a ground-based researcher or by an on-board program. Spartan features minimal battery power, batteries, and control systems and no redundancy. Thermal control is added because the flights last 100-1000 times as long as those on sounding rockets. Data are recorded by an on-board tape recorder and operations are controlled by an on-board microprocessor. Spartan 1 will carry a star-pointer and X-ray detectors for high energy astrophysics experiments. Spartan 2 will gather solar physics data in the form of temperatures of hydrogen gas and ions and electrons. Particle densities will also be monitored and a 43 cm solar telescope will produce UV and white light solar coronagraphs. UV spectroscopy of stars, clouds and galaxies will be performed by the Spartan 3 payload.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Spartan - Space at low-cost


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1984-12-01



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Space research and Spartan

    Cruddace, R. G. / Fritz, G. G. / Shrewsberry, D. J. | NTRS | 1985


    Space research and Spartan

    CRUDDACE, R. / FRITZ, G. / SHREWSBERRY, D. | AIAA | 1985


    Spartan

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1930


    Spartan "Cruiser"

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1932