Detector, Element, Uhuru
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- American Science & Engineering, Incorporated
- Summary
- This is a flight spare proportional counter from the SAS-1/Uhuru satellite. The rectangular box is filled with gas, and has a window at one end to admit X-rays. These rays ionize the gas allowing a charge to transfer from the casing to a central anode wire. The height of the resulting output pulse is proportional to the energy of the incident X-ray. The Uhuru satellite, launched in 1970, was the first earth-orbiting spacecraft dedicated exclusively to X-ray astronomy.
- This counter was transferred to NASM by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 2002.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard University.
- Inventory Number
- A20020295000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Scientific
- Materials
- Aluminum
- Steel
- Coating
- Synthetic
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 51.4 × 5.1 × 5.1cm, 0.6kg (1 ft. 8 1/4 in. × 2 in. × 2 in., 1.4lb.)
- 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_A20020295000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9600d7c42-e984-4fbf-ad26-89ba85597d53
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