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Table 1:

Spacecraft and telescope main characteristics.

Spacecraft 		 
Size height/width     7.4 / 4.0 m
Mass wet (incl. helium) / dry 3400 (335)/2800 kg
(incl. telescope/science instruments 315/426 kg)
Power total/science instruments 1200/506 W
Science data rate (max. average) 130 kbps
Solar aspect angle (wrt tel. boresight) 60 $\hbox{$^\circ$ }-$110 $\hbox{$^\circ$ }$(120 $\hbox{$^\circ$ }$)
Absolute pointing (68%) $\sim$2 $^{\prime \prime }$
Telescope  
Primary physical/effective diameter 3.5/3.28 m
Secondary diameter 30.8 cm
System/primary f-number 8.70/0.5
Wave front error best-focus (centre/edge) 4.8/5.5 $\mu $m
Angular resolution $\sim$7 $\hbox{$^{\prime\prime}$ }\times(\lambda_{\rm obs}$/100 $\mu $m)
Operational temperature $\sim$85 K


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