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...space satellite telescope--known as the Advanced X-Ray Astronomy Facility (AXAF)--is one example of Harvard and MIT's move to the forefront of astronomical study. Other projects have included the Einstein Observatory, the less powerful prototype of the current satellite which orbited the earth from 1978-1981, and the X-Ray Timing Explorer, an MIT operated satellite...
AXAF, an orbital observatory for detailed long range study of X-ray emissions in space. should be under construction by 1987 and is expected to be operational from 1990 to 2005. Tananbaum said...
...Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Faculty (AXAF), an orbital observatory for detailed long range study of x-ray emmissions in space, should be under construction by 1987 and is expected to be operational from 1990 to 2005, said Associate Director of the Center for Astrophysics Harvey D. Tananbaum, head of the project...
Aside from focusing on galaxies never examined before, the telescope will use advanced x-ray techniques to provide information on a host of celestial mysteries, ranging from black holes to the origin of the universe...
...foot long AXAF will travel into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle to an altitude of about 288 miles, where the high resolution x-ray telescope will orbit the earth. Its highly sensitive eye will include instruments for detection and spectral analysis...