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A high-precision view of the sun

Before taking off to ISS, a measuring device was calibrated at PTB

19.07.2007

Shortly before the preparations for the next Space Shuttle launch to the International Space Station ISS, the solar-spectroradiometer SOLSPEC stopped by at the PTB in Braunschweig to be precisely calibrated at the high-temperature cavity radiator facility.

Full text of the scientific news:
http://www.ptb.de/de/aktuelles/archiv/nachrichten/2007/_sonne.html

Contact:
Peter Sperfeld,
PTB Working Group 4.11,
E-Mail: peter.sperfeld@ptb.de