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    The European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT), originally named HELOS, was an X-ray telescope operational from May 1983 until April 1986 and in that...
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    EnVision (2031) Astronomy and cosmology Cos-B (1975–1982) IUE (1978–1996) EXOSAT (1983–1986) Hipparcos (1989–1993) Hubble Space Telescope (1990–present)...
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    Trajectory Details (Exosat)". NASA. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2008-02-27. "NASA – NSSDC – Spacecraft – Details (Exosat)". NASA. Archived...
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  • eventually chose HELOS, renamed Exosat, and the IMP-D, renamed ISEE-2, projects. The European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT), originally named "HELOS"...
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    heavy X-ray space observatory with focusing X-ray optics, and European EXOSAT. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched by NASA in 1999 and is operated...
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    Proxima Centauri. Further observations of flare activity were made with the EXOSAT and ROSAT satellites, and the X-ray emissions of smaller, solar-like flares...
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    in 1984–85 Lewin made guest observations with the European observatory EXOSAT in collaboration with colleagues from Amsterdam and Garching, Germany. This...
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  • Union Venera 16 Venus Success Venera 16 orbiter  Europe EXOSAT Earth Success Launch of the EXOSAT X-ray satellite  Japan Tenma Earth Success Launch of the...
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    telescopes such as Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, ROSAT, ASCA, EXOSAT, Suzaku, RHESSI and future missions like IXO [1] and Astro-H [2]. Bremsstrahlung...
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    CXBN-2 (2017–2019) DXS (1993) EPOCh (2008) EPOXI (2010) Explorer 11 (1961) EXOSAT (1983–1986) EUVE (1992–2001) FUSE (1999–2007) Kvant-1 (1987–2001) GALEX...
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    scientist for the medium-energy x-ray experiment on the European Space Agency's EXOSAT satellite and played a leading role in the proposal and design studies for...
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    X1732-304 was detected within the cluster with NASA’s Spacelab 2 and ESA’s EXOSAT missions. "A home for old stars". Retrieved 15 December 2015. "Search Result...
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    CXBN-2 (2017–2019) DXS (1993) EPOCh (2008) EPOXI (2010) Explorer 11 (1961) EXOSAT (1983–1986) EUVE (1992–2001) FUSE (1999–2007) Kvant-1 (1987–2001) GALEX...
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    Science Directorate as a visiting scientist, working as duty scientist at the EXOSAT Observatory, located at ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt...
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    satellites that were active from the 1980s to the early 2000s: the HEAO Program, EXOSAT, Ginga, RXTE, ROSAT, ASCA, as well as BeppoSAX, which detected the first...
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  • missions that influenced ESIS at the time were the Hubble Space Telescope, EXOSAT and IUE, while Space Physics was mainly focused on the Cluster mission....
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  • Peacock, British-Dutch(?) project scientist for the European Space Agency Exosat and XMM-Newton missions JPL · 18727 18728 Grammier 1998 KZ3 Richard ("Rick")...
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    dark matter. In 1982, even before the launch of XMM-Newton's predecessor EXOSAT in 1983, a proposal was generated for a "multi-mirror" X-ray telescope mission...
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    which discovered 300 sources. More recent X-ray satellites include: the EXOSAT (1983), ROSAT (1990), Chandra (1999), and Newton (1999). Gamma rays are...
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    S2CID 211296645. Retrieved 30 June 2022. Landini, M.; et al. (March 1986), "EXOSAT detection of an X-ray flare from the solar type star Pi-prime UMa", Astronomy...
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    fifteen instruments from various European national space administrations. EXOSAT, launched May 1983 – ESA's first X-ray space observatory mission. GEOS-1...
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    an F-type star. X-ray emissions were detected from this star during the EXOSAT mission. In Chinese, 天廄 (Tiān Jiù), meaning Celestial Stable, refers to...
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    doi:10.1086/190600. Turner, T. J.; Pounds, K. A. (1 October 1989). "The EXOSAT spectral survey of AGN". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
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    EnVision (2031) Astronomy and cosmology Cos-B (1975–1982) IUE (1978–1996) EXOSAT (1983–1986) Hipparcos (1989–1993) Hubble Space Telescope (1990–present)...
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    accretion disk in orbit around the primary. X-ray observations with the EXOSAT observatory in 1984–1985 demonstrated there are two regions of emission...
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    was reduced to seven telescopes overall by 1987, though the success of EXOSAT inspired mission planners to improve the efficiency of the mission's observations...
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    EnVision (2031) Astronomy and cosmology Cos-B (1975–1982) IUE (1978–1996) EXOSAT (1983–1986) Hipparcos (1989–1993) Hubble Space Telescope (1990–present)...
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    EnVision (2031) Astronomy and cosmology Cos-B (1975–1982) IUE (1978–1996) EXOSAT (1983–1986) Hipparcos (1989–1993) Hubble Space Telescope (1990–present)...
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  • Weather Satellite GTO Success 157 1983-05-26 15:18 Delta 3914 169 VAFB LC-2W EXOSAT X-ray Space telescope HEO Success 158 1983-06-28 23:08 Delta 3920 170 CCAFS...
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    of BU Cet. The star was detected as a source of soft X-ray emission by EXOSAT. It has 18% more mass than the Sun and is estimated to be about four billion...
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