Solar instruments on the P78-1 spacecraft

Abstract

The solar experiment package on the P78-1 spacecraft is described. The satellite was launched on 24 February 1979 by the U.S. Air Force and contains high resolution Bragg crystal spectrometers, hard-X-ray proportional counters, and a white light coronagraph. The high resolution spectrometers were built by the Aerospace Corporation and the Naval Research Laboratory. The hard X-ray spectrometers were built by the Aerospace Corporation and the white light coronagraph was supplied by the Naval Research Laboratory. Most of these instruments are still returning data.