HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.
Prognoz 2 was launched on 29 June 1972. It was put into
a highly elliptical orbit with apogee 200,000 km, perigee 550 km, and
inclination 65 degrees. It carried the first instrument package, SIGNE 1,
resulting from the Franco-Soviet SIGNE collaboration. This instrument was
intended to perform solar radiation studies. However, it detected cosmic
gamma-ray bursts as well as solar events.
Prognoz 2 reentered the atmosphere on 15 December 1982.
The SIGNE 1 detector consisted of a Stilbene scintillator, 38.1 mm in
diameter and 38.1 mm high. It was shielded by a plastic anticoincidence
scintillator. There were 8 energy channels: 0.4-0.7 MeV, 0.7-1.0 MeV, 1-1.6
MeV, 1.6-2.4 MeV, 2.4-2.9 MeV, 2.9-3.9 MeV, 3.9-8.1 MeV, and 8.1-11.8 MeV.
Counts were integrated for every 41 or 160 seconds, depending on the experiment
mode. The effective area was 17.1 cm2.
HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.
