Tenma - Japan's X-ray satellite

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Jun 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984spfl...26..284s&link_type=abstract

Spaceflight (ISSN 0038-6340), vol. 26, June 1984, p. 284.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Japanese Space Program, Spaceborne Astronomy, X Ray Astronomy, Satellite Design, Scintillation Counters

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Japan's second X-ray satellite, designated 'Tenma', has temporal and spectral sensitivity superior to that of its predecessor, Hakucho. It is a spin-stabilized satellite whose attitude maneuvers are performed through the activation of a magnetic torquing coil, by means of which a typical, 20-deg transfer occupies several orbits. Tenma carries as its instrument set scintillation proportional counters for spectral and temporal studies, an X-ray focusing collector for the study of very soft X-ray sources, a transient source monitor for wide-field sky monitoring, and a radiation belt monitor/gamma-ray burst detector for monitoring the non-X-ray background.

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