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| <P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Arial">The INTEGRAL is an international | |
| cooperative project between ESA, various universities and institutes | |
| in Europe, and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. The spacecraft | |
| instruments will be provided by ESA<BR> | |
| and the launch vehicle will be provided by IKI of Russia. GSFC | |
| will provide the active coded-aperature mask and by contract | |
| through University of California San Diego the pulse shape discriminator | |
| detector electronics. Deep Space Network support for INTEGRAL | |
| is planned.</FONT></P> | |
| <P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Arial">The energy range is between 3 | |
| keV and 10 MeV. The energy resolution is 2 keV at 500 keV. The<BR> | |
| angular resolution varies between 3 to 17 arcseconds as a function | |
| of energy.</FONT></P> | |
| <P><B><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Arial">Salient Features:</FONT></B></P> | |
| <P><B><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Arial">Project Start:</FONT></B><FONT | |
| SIZE="-1" FACE="Arial"> 1994 US participation early 1995<BR> | |
| <B>Spacecraft Weight: </B>3,839 kg<BR> | |
| <B>Planned Lifetime: </B>2 years with the possibility of 5 years<BR> | |
| <B>Orbit:</B> 4,000 km by 68,000 km at 65 deg inclination<BR> | |
| <B>Launch:</B> ARIANE V from Guiana, South America, September 2001</FONT></P> | |
| <P><B><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Arial">Instrument Complement:</FONT></B></P> | |
| <P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Arial">Germanium Spectrometer<BR> | |
| Cesium Iodide Imagery<BR> | |
| X-ray Monitor<BR> | |
| Optical Transient Camera</FONT></P> | |
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