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QUASAT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

R. T. Schilizzi
R. T. Schilizzi*
Affiliation:
Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

Abstract

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QUASAT was proposed to ESA as a joint ESA-NASA medium scale mission for space VLBI in December 1982. At the time of writing, four and a half years later, QUASAT has passed through an Assessment Study in ESA, a pre-Phase A study in NASA and has just entered an ESA Phase A study in European industry, supported by JPL and Australian and Canadian space interests. If QUASAT is selected to fly at the end of the Phase A study, it will be launched in 1995–1996. The scientific goals, mission concept and current status are reviewed this paper.

Type
Instrumentation and Analysis
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 129: The Impact of VLBI on Astrophysics and Geophysics , 1988 , pp. 441 - 446
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988