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Sponsored primarily by a Center for Astrophysics (CFA) team headed by professor of astronomy Riccardo Giacconi, the High Energy Astrophysical Observatory-B (HEAO-B), to be renamed the "Einstein Observatory" upon reaching orbit is designed to for the first time take high resolution X-Ray photographs of a variety of distant cosmic objects, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, hot gas clouds and clusters of galaxies...
Giacconi said yesterday that HEAO-B is a necessary tool for studying the universe. "Effective X-Ray astronomy can't be done on the ground...we absolutely must be in space," he said...
...HEAO-B should enable astronomers to examine radiation sources a thousand times fainter than those observed until now. "We hope to give the universe a lot of chances to show us something new," he added...
Paul Gorenstein, lecturer on astronomy, said he expects HEAO-B to "Make major contributions not only to X-Ray astronomy but to astronomy in general...
...goes according to plan, the HEAO-B will be launched from Cape Kennedy by an Atlas-Centaur rocket shortly after 12:23 a.m. Monday. HEAO-B has no back-up, so a safe launch is essential to the mission's success...