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(a revolution is defined from perigee passage to perigee passage, ~ 63 hrs, 49 mins)

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Welcome to the homepage of Philippe Meynis de Paulin, former data operator for the mission INTEGRAL After almost 18 years as a data processing operator for the Integral Satellite mission, I retired in April 2020. I want to thank all teams and people who helped me and assisted me during all these years. In particular: Carlo Ferrigno and Enrico Bozzo, my coordinators, former coordinator Nami Mowlavi, the H/W and S/W teams for helping me on many issues, and the Darmstadt MOC team (Mission Operation Center), especially Stefano De Padova with whom I was mostly in contact. And many thanks to everyone who helped me in every other way. Growing up in the suburbian town of Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), home of the well-known French observatory, perhaps sew the interest for astronomy, since I participated for more than 18 years to the Integral Satellite mission (an ESA mission) at ISDC . The ISDC is a part of the Geneva Observatory. Integral was launched on 17 October 2002 from Baikonour. It follows an elliptic orbit, with an apogee at about 153'000 km from the Earth and a perigee (closest point to the Earth) at about 9000 km (see how is the orbit at Heavens-Above). It approximately completes an orbit around the Earth in 2 days and 15 hours. Its purpose is to observe the deep sky in the X-ray and Gamma ray bands. Gamma rays are the most energetic radiations in the universe. They can be caused by colliding neutron stars, matter caught by black holes, exploding stars, or particles trapped in strong magnetic fields. The satellite has several instruments working in the following fields: IBIS (Gamma-ray Imager, for energies between 15 keV and 10 MeV) JEM-X (Joint European X-Ray Monitor, energy range: 3 keV to 35 keV) SPI (Spectrometer, energy range: 20 keV to 8 MeV) OMC (Optical Monitor) IREM (Integral Radiation Monitor). After more than 20 years of delivering data, Integral has been able to observe many Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and about 100 new gamma-ray sources per year.

Proton 5 launcher

INTEGRAL Science Data Center (ISDC) 16 Chemin d'Ecogia, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland Tel.: +41 22 379 21 73 ("the barn")	Galactic center as seen by Integral		Artist's view of Integral's Earth observation	Preparation before launch
INTEGRAL Picture of the Month
Article about Integral's discovery of a new X-ray nova

About ECOGIA: a few historical notes

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Page created: Nov 10, 2003 / last updated: August 28, 2023