Search Publications
AKARI: space infrared cooled telescope
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-009-9168-3
Bibcode: 2009ExA....27....9O
Onaka, Takashi; Salama, Alberto
AKARI, formerly known as ASTRO-F, is the second Japanese space mission to perform infrared astronomical observations. AKARI was launched on 21 February 2006 (UT) and brought into a sun-synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 700 km by a JAXA M-V rocket. AKARI has a telescope with a primary-mirror aperture size of 685 mm together with two focal-p…
2009
•
Experimental Astronomy
AKARI
2