The LEGRI telescope
on board MINISAT-01
Low Energy Gamma-Ray
Imager
LEGRI (Low
Energy Gamma Ray Imager) was selected in 1994 as a payload for the first mission
of the Spanish MINISAT-01 platform and launched in April
1997. The objective of LEGRI is to demonstrate the viability of HgI2 and CdZnTe
detectors for Space Astronomy, providing imaging and spectroscopical capabilities
in the 10-100 keV range. LEGRI consists of a Coded Mask Aperture System and an
array of 10x10 cristals etector plane (80 HgI2 and 20 CdZnTe). LEGRI was being
built by a consortium including the University of Valencia, the University
of Southampton, the University of Birmingham,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Centro de Estudios Medioambientales y Tecnologicos (Ciemat) and INTA.