SPIRE Instrument
Date: 19 September 2007
Satellite: Herschel
Depicts: Focal plane unit of the SPIRE instrument
Copyright: ESA
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The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) consists of a three-band imaging photometer centred at 250, 350 and 500 μm, and an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) covering 200-670 μm. The detectors are arrays of feedhorn-coupled NTD spider-web bolometers cooled to 0.3 K. SPIRE was developed by a consortium led by Cardiff University (UK).
Last Update: 1 September 2019