Session
Session IV: The Past & Coming Years
Abstract
The ECLAIRs mission is part of CNES Myriade micro satellite family, and has been selected at the end of 2004 for a launch scheduled in 2009. The development of satellite reached the end of phase A in the first trimester of 2006. The scientific objective of the mission consist observing and characterizing in several wavelengths Gamma Ray burst, to localize them and to alert in real time a ground station network in order to allow ground based telescope to observe the burst’s afterglows. The payload is composed of a set of two instruments a X-ray/g-ray camera (CXG) developed by CEA that will detect and characterize gamma bursts and a Soft X-ray camera (SXC) developed by MIT that allows to increase the precision/accuracy in gamma ray burst localization.
Presentation Slides
General Architecture of ECLAIRs Microsatellite
The ECLAIRs mission is part of CNES Myriade micro satellite family, and has been selected at the end of 2004 for a launch scheduled in 2009. The development of satellite reached the end of phase A in the first trimester of 2006. The scientific objective of the mission consist observing and characterizing in several wavelengths Gamma Ray burst, to localize them and to alert in real time a ground station network in order to allow ground based telescope to observe the burst’s afterglows. The payload is composed of a set of two instruments a X-ray/g-ray camera (CXG) developed by CEA that will detect and characterize gamma bursts and a Soft X-ray camera (SXC) developed by MIT that allows to increase the precision/accuracy in gamma ray burst localization.
