An investigation has been conducted to determine how the choice of orbit for NASA's prospective Space IR Telescope Facility (SIRTF), between polar (99-deg) and low inclination (28.5-deg) alternatives, will affect the performance of the all-superfluid He-cooled IR optics employed. While the dewar design met both the service life and 200-micron background-limited performance criteria in the case of the polar orbit mission, the alternative orbit allowed the background-limited criteria to be met only 50 percent of the time. It is accordingly recommended that the 200-micron background-limited observations be made only for a limited portion of the mission, while meeting the 100-micron limit at all times.
Cryogenic implications of orbit selection of the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)
1986-01-01
Conference paper
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English
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