Instrument Flight Electronic Package, Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
Object Details
- Summary
- This is an original flight electronics package for the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT), one of the major components of the ASTRO mission that flew twice in space, first on Columbia from 2 - 10 December 1990, and then on Endeavour from 3 to 17 March 1995. UIT is an F/9 Ritchey-Chretien reflecting telescope with a primary mirror 38 cm. in diameter. When a third flight of ASTRO was not funded, the UIT and its sister instruments, including the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope and the BBXRT telescope, were retired. UIT and HUT were transferred to the National Air and Space Museum in 2005.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Inventory Number
- A20050389004
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Scientific
- Materials
- Non-Magnetic White Metal
- Plastic
- Copper Alloy
- Rubber
- Solder
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 81.3 × 52.1 × 26.7cm (2 ft. 8 in. × 1 ft. 8 1/2 in. × 10 1/2 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20050389004
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9c82412cf-06da-4119-98fe-da8acc02d8b9
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