Description
The Orbiting Solar Observatory-I (OSO-8) was launched on 21 June 1975 into a 550 km circular orbit at 33 degrees inclination. Data were obtained from the mission until late September 1978. The spacecraft structure consisted of a rotating cylindrical base section called the "wheel" and a non-spinning upper section called the "sail". While the primary objectives of the mission were solar in nature, there were 3 detectors, the GSFC Cosmic X-ray Spectroscopy experiments (GCXSE detectors A, B and C), mounted in the rotating wheel which had exclusively non-solar objectives. Their fields-of-view were either aligned to the spin axis or at small angles to it, hence they always view the portion of the sky at right angles to the earth-sun line. This database accesses the raw rates FITS datafile for the A, B and C GCXSE detectors, accumulated every 160 ms in the 2-60 keV energy band. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Resources
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https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov%2FW3Browse%2Fall%2Foso8rtraw.html |
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5 |
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https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov%2Fxamin%2Fvo%2Fcone%3Fshowoffsets%26table%3Doso8rtraw%26 |
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21 |
oso8rtraw.html |
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/oso8rtraw.html |
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5 |
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https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=oso8rtraw& |