Capabilities
Enable facility type missions
- Fly large telescope for approximately 100 days
- Recover, refit, and re-fly
Science
- Based on atmospheric transmission
- Gamma Rays >90,000 ft
- Hard X-rays >110,000 ft ~ 1 - 20 Å
- Soft X-rays >140,000 ft ~ 20 - 200 Å
- Far UV >150,000 ft ~ 200 - 1200 Å *
- Near UV >110,000 ft ~ 1200 - 3000 Å **
- IR >90,000 ft