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FONTS

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Launch

X Ray

  • Heaviest satellite the shuttle has ever launched
  • Needed a Inertial Upper Stage (2nd stage)
  • STS-93 July 23, 1999,
  • Very high energy Photons
  • Mirrors cant reflect it
  • iridium coating is used
  • Grazing incidence optics
  • Nested barrel design

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  • Indian-American astrophysicist
  • 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics
  • The Chandrasekhar limit
  • Math Teacher of Carl Sagan

Success

Project

  • Very very successful
  • meant for 5 years gong for 20+
  • early observation of Black Holes
  • Help deeper study of planets
  • Even photographed "HAND OF GOD"
  • Complex Mirror + ISS funding
  • GOV almost canceled the project
  • Project would be smaller & non reparable
  • Allowed for elliptical orbit 140,000 KM
  • Cleared Van Allen radiation belt
  • Allows for 55hr single Observations

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