The FIRST ESA cornerstone mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3356, Issue , 1998, Pages 452-461

  Pilbratt, Göran L ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cryogenic; Far infrared; FIRST; Galaxy formation; Interstellar medium; Planck; Space astronomy; Star formation; Submillimetre

Indexed keywords

FAR INFRARED; FIRST; GALAXY FORMATIONS; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUMS; PLANCK; SPACE ASTRONOMY; STAR FORMATIONS; SUBMILLIMETRE;

CRYOGENICS; EARTH (PLANET); GALAXIES; INSTRUMENTS; NASA; OBSERVATORIES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT; STARS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ASTRONOMY; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOMETRY; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROSCOPY;

SPACE FLIGHT;

FAR-INFRARED AND SUBMILLIMETER TELESCOPE (FIRST);

EID: 0032295964     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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