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Keywords Ozone layer, Aerospace
The perfect launch of the European Space Agency's ENVISAT environmental monitoring satellite carried into orbit the GOMOS (Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars) instrument containing no less than five light detection modules designed and built by Sira Electro-Optics. GOMOS has now been activated and scientists are already excited about its performance (see Plate 1).
Brian Teather, Sira Electro-Optics programme manager, says "Sira's contribution consists of near-infrared and visible/ultraviolet spectrometer detection modules, two...