ISO Satellite

The Infrared Space Observatory ISO is a project of the Space Science Department of the European Space Agency ESA. The four focal plane instruments of ISO were built by international consortia of scientific institutes.

For more information on ISO please see:

The activites of the ISO Spectrometer Data Centre at MPE are focussed on observations made with the ISO short and long wavelength spectrometers:

ISO Satellite and Orbit:

Sketch of ISO (29 kB)

ISO Satellite (0.3 MB)

ISO Orbit (0.3 MB)

ISO Images on the WEB:

ISD Visulab Images of ISO
ESA's 101 ISO Slides - see for example:
- Slide #48: Sketch of ISO with IR light path
- Slide #95: ISO telescope with 60cm primary mirror
- Slide #25: Focal-plane instruments behind primary mirror
- Slide #26: ISO pyramidal mirror
- Slide #55: ISO cryostat
- Slide #55: ISO cryostat cover
- Slide #75: Service module
- Slide #86: ISO satellite
  (Connect to the high-lighted link above and select the slide.)
RAL's little ISO gallery

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Last update: 13-Mar-1997 by D. Kunze
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