RadioAstron Monthly Notices
December 2003 – March 2004
for three Formatters – ground test model and two
flight models;
Appendix - the list of used acronyms
ASC Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Instutute
Cold Plate cooled
LNAs and antenna feed
DC hermetic
device container (part of payload); it contains Formatter, Rb oscillators,
synthesizer,
control unit and is placed under dish
DM Device
Module = DC + H-maser
EGSE Electronic
Ground Support Equipment
Electronic Complex – all SRT electronics
EM Engineering Model
FC Focal
Container – hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains
receivers,
microwave
synthesizer, control unit and is placed in focal site of dish
FM Focal
Module = Focal Container+Cold Plate
LA Lavochkin
Association
OHCFS-SRT Space
Radio Telescope On-board Heterodyne and Clock Frequency Synthesizer set
OHFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Hydrogen
Frequency Standard
ORFS-SRT Space
Radio Telescope On-board Rubidium Frequency Standard
Service Module, Spacecraft bus – spacecraft itself (without payload).
SRT Space
Radio Telescope (all scientific payload including 10-m dish)
TMS Spacecraft
Telemetry System (technical)
TVT Thermo-Vacuum
Tests
VIRK Scientific
high rate (up to 2x72 Mbit/s) radio complex, including transponder
ZBIT Zero Baseline Interferometer Tests (ZBIT)