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Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
Delta II · Astrophysics
1995Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral
Mission
The XTE (X-Ray Timing Explorer), renamed on orbit RXTE (Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer) mission has the primary objective to study the temporal and broad-band spectral phenomena associated with stellar and galactic systems containing compact objects in the energy range 2--200 keV and in time scales from microseconds to years.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Delta II
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2