Among them was a stipulation that the principal investigator would not be allowed to recruit foreign instrument contributions in excess of one-third the value of the U.S. instruments on the payload, even though those contributions don't count against the $450 million cap.
The SMC commands the instruments of the scientific payload, collects and distributes DEMETER data and associated products to the DEMETER international community.
All instruments of the magnetometer payload are mounted on a deployable boom, with the vector field magnetometer (VFM) and the star tracker (STR) assembly sharing a common rigid optical bench and the absolute scalar magnetometer (ASM) mounted 2 m away, at the tip of the boom.
Of the 10 science instruments of the MSL payload [ Grotzinger et al., 2012], Sample Analysis at Mars's (SAM's) mass spectrometer provides the best capability to measure the nitrogen isotopic ratio [ Mahaffy et al., 2012].
A single EXPRESS Pallet has the capability of carrying a collection of instruments similar to the payload of a conventional satellite.
The range of instruments flown as part of the payload will also provide accurate input data to improve atmospheric radiative transfer codes by anchoring boundary conditions, through simultaneous measurements of aerosols, particulates and radiances at various heights.
A twin-camera multispectral instrument in the payload bay of the shuttle has been scanning desert particles whipped into the atmosphere and, at night, making images of the tops of some of the thousands of thunderstorms that rumble through the atmosphere every hour.
The model is experimentally tested on the REMS GTS, an instrument for measuring ground temperature, which is part of the payload of the NASA MSL mission to Mars.
More size means fewer instruments fit on the craft, and more weight means they take up more of the payload — both restrictions that surely chafed the designers of early probes like Voyager and Galileo.
Some metallic parts of the two on-board instruments, SWEAP (a Faraday cup) and FIELDS (antennas), will directly face the Sun, while the rest of the payload will be protected by a heat shield.
