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However, the STS-93 crew will launch AXAF on day one of their mission...
...AXAF is the third of NASA's major observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory...
...will travel on a highly elliptical orbit for five to seven years. AXAF will observe the universe in fifty times more detail than any previous X-ray telescope. The satellite combines the ability to make sharp images while measuring precisely the energies of X-rays coming from cosmic sources...
...AXAF will study many phenomena, including supernovae, black holes and nebulae...
...retrieve AXAF once we let it go," Collins said...