The Soviet ASTRON mission: legacy |
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| Authors: | Alexander Boyarchuk Igor Savanov Evgeny Kanev Boris Shustov Mikhail Sachkov |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyatnitskaya 48, 119017, Moscow, Russia
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| Abstract: | 2013 marks the 30th anniversary since the launch of Soviet Spacecraft Astron that had been operated for 6 years as the largest ultraviolet telescope during its lifetime. The Astron orbital station was designed for the astrophysical observations. It was launched into orbit by Proton launch system on March 23, 1983. Astron had a 80 cm ultraviolet telescope with mass of 400 kg and a complex of X-ray spectrographs with mass of 300 kg on board as a payload. It’s high apogee orbit (with apogee 200000 km and perigee 2000 km) permitted the influences of the Earth’s umbra and radiation belts to be excluded from the measurements. The main astrophysical results are summarized in this paper. |
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