PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 LABEL_REVISION_NOTE = " August 2, 2004, Carol Neese: Create instrument host catalog. " OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID = "MSX" OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_INFORMATION INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME = "MIDCOURSE SPACE EXPERIMENT" INSTRUMENT_HOST_TYPE = "SPACECRAFT" INSTRUMENT_HOST_DESC = " Instrument Host Overview ======================== The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) was a long-duration observatory- style measurement platform that collected of high-quality data on Earth, Earth-limb, celestial background targets, ICBM targets, and resident space objects. MSX was launched in April 1996 into polar orbit, and included a cryogenic infrared scanning radiometer and Fourier-transform spectrometer, several visible and ultraviolet imagers and spectrographic imagers, and set of contamination instruments. " END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_INFORMATION OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_REFERENCE_INFO REFERENCE_KEY_ID = "MILLETAL1994" END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_REFERENCE_INFO END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST END