Joint European X-Ray telescope (JET-X), never flown - built for Russian SPECTRUM mission which was cancelled after breakup of Soviet Union (see note)
This unflown telescope would have detected X-ray sources in the night sky by a technique called grazing incidence in which the X-rays entering the barrel of the instrument skim its internal walls and on to the detectors. Although never flown the telescope's development fed into other missions and particularly the very successful Swift observatory that detects Gamma Ray Bursts.
Joint European X-Ray Telescope (JET-X), British 1989.
Joint European X-Ray Telescope (JET-X), British 1989.
Joint European X-Ray telescope (JET-X), never flown - built for Russian SPECTRUM mission which was cancelled after breakup of Soviet Union (see note)
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This unflown telescope would have detected X-ray sources in the night sky by a technique called grazing incidence in which the X-rays entering the barrel of the instrument skim its internal walls and on to the detectors. Although never flown the telescope's development fed into other missions and particularly the very successful Swift observatory that detects Gamma Ray Bursts.
Cradle for the Joint European X-Ray Telescope (JET-X), British 1989.
Cradle for the Joint European X-Ray Telescope (JET-X), British 1989.
Cradle for the Joint European X-Ray telescope (JET-X), never flown - built for Russian SPECTRUM mission which was cancelled after breakup of Soviet Union (see note)
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This unflown telescope would have detected X-ray sources in the night sky by a technique called grazing incidence in which the X-rays entering the barrel of the instrument skim its internal walls and on to the detectors. Although never flown the telescope's development fed into other missions and particularly the very successful Swift observatory that detects Gamma Ray Bursts.
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