The Astromag facility
Smoot ; GF ; - ASI Sponsor
Jan - 1990
DOI: 10.1063/1.39143

journal : AIP Conference Proceedings
type: Article Journal

Abstract
The USA and Italy are planning to place a large superconducting magnet facility, Astromag, on the Space Station Freedom in the late 1990’s. Astromag has been designed as primarily a cosmic ray astrophysics facility, but it could also be used for any investigation which can make use of a large volume, high intensity magnetic field in a microgravity or space environment. This paper describes the facility and mentions the first set of astrophysical problems to be investigated.

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