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 The CHIPS
instrument is designed to provide key information about the power
radiated by the hot gas in the ISM in the range of 160-260 Å
. The CHIPS instrument was fabricated at the
Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California,
Berkeley, and carried aboard a dedicated mini-satellite, called CHIPSat,
provided by
SpaceDev, Inc.
The illustration (right) shows the path of
light as it enters CHIPS' detectors.
The launch vehicle for the CHIPsat was a Boeing Delta II; its primary payload was NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation satellite (ICESat). CHIPSat was attached to the second stage of the Delta II. To learn more about the mission go to the mission website: http://chips.ssl.berkeley.edu/ |
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