OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System) is the main scientific imaging system on the orbiter of the ESA spacecraft Rosetta. It was built by a consortium led by the German Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.
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OSIRIS was approved as an instrument for the spacecraft in 1996.[1] It was launched in 2004 on Rosetta and was used until that mission concluded with the deactivation of the Rosetta spacecraft on the comet 67/P in September 2016.[2][3]
The OSIRIS has two camera's with a different field of view, but each is a digital camera using a CCD.[4] Each camera has a resolution of 2048 by 2048 pixels and uses the same type of CCD.[5] The CCD's are supported by two Digital Signal Processors that use solid state memory.[6] It was launched on the Rosetta spacecraft in 2004, and first used in space in May 2004.[7]
OSIRIS is two camera's in one instrument:[8]
- Narrow angle camera with a field of view of 2.4 by 2.4 degrees
- Wide angle camera with a field of view of 12 by 12 degrees
See also
- Odin-OSIRIS (instrument on Odin satellite)
- OSIRIS-REx (NASA asteroid probe)