The INTEGRAL mission
@article{Winkler2003TheIM,
title={The INTEGRAL mission},
author={C. Winkler},
journal={Experimental Astronomy},
year={2003},
volume={6},
pages={71-76}
}INTEGRAL, the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, to be launched in 2001, is the second medium-size scientific mission (M2) of the ESA long term programme “Horizon 2000”. INTEGRAL addresses the fine spectroscopy and accurate positioning of celestial gamma-ray sources in the energy range 10 keV to 10 MeV. The observational requirements will be met by a payload utilising coded mask imaging in combination with detector pixel arrays (Imaging) and cooled Germanium detectors…
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