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Integral was selected by the ESA Science Programme Committee on 3 June 1993 as the next ESA medium-size scientific mission (M2) of the Horizon 2000 programme to be launched in 2002. The mission is conceived as an observatory led by ESA with contributions from Russia (PROTON launcher) and NASA (Deep Space Network ground station).
The ESA scientific mission INTEGRAL (The International Gamma-
Ray Astrophysics Laboratory is dedicated to the fine spectroscopy (E/E = 500) and fine imaging (angular resolution: 12 arcmin FWHM) of celestial gamma-
ray sources in the energy range 15 keV to 10 MeV with concurrent source monitoring in the X-
ray (3-35 keV) and optical (V-band, 550 nm) energy ranges.
INTEGRAL summary table
INTEGRAL in a nutshell
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The mission utilises the service module (bus) under development for the ESA XMM project. Integral will be launched by a Russian PROTON into a highly eccentric 72-hour orbit. The nominal lifetime of the observatory will be 2 years with possible extension to up to 5 years. Most of the observing time will be made available to the worldwide scientific community.
Following an Announcement of Opportunity (issued 01 July 1994), proposals submitted by the scientific community for scientific instruments and candidates for Mission Scientist positions were evaluated between December 1994 and April 1995. The Science Programme Committee of ESA approved on 31 May 1995 the following set of instruments to form the scientific payload complement for INTEGRAL, and the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC), and the following PI's were appointed in 1995:
SPECTROMETER SPI Co-PI's: Gilbert Vedrenne (CESR Toulouse, France) and Volker Schoenfelder (MPE Garching, Germany).
IMAGER IBIS PI: Pietro Ubertini (IAS Frascati, Italy), Co-PI's: Guido DiCocco (ITESRE Bologna, Italy) and Francois Lebrun (CE-Saclay, France).
X-
RAY MONITOR JEM-X PI: Herb Schnopper (DSRI Copenhagen)
OPTICAL MONITORING CAMERA OMC PI: Alvaro Gimenez (INTA Madrid, Spain).
INTEGRAL SCIENCE DATA CENTRE ISDC PI: Thierry Courvoisier (Obs. Geneva, Switzerland).
All PI teams are made up by large international collaborations from scientific institutes from almost all 14 ESA member states, USA, Russia, Czech Republic and Poland.
The following Mission Scientists have been nominated: Jacques Paul (CE-Saclay, France), Giorgio Palumbo (U Bologna, Italy), Wim Hermsen (SRON Utrecht, The Netherlands), Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC, USA) and Sergei Grebenev (IKI Moscow, Russia).
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У меня вопрос - от нас только ракета, и ВСЕ?
Как там наблюдательное время делится?
