ANS -
Lifetime: Aug 1974 - June 1977, Energy Range: 0.1 - 30 keV and 1500-3300 Angstoms
Ariel V -
Lifetime: Oct 1974 - Mar 1980, Energy Range: 0.3 - 40 keV
ASCA - First X-ray mission to combine imaging
capability with broad pass band, good spectral resolution, and a large effective area.
(1993 - 2001)
BBXRT -
Lifetime: Dec 1990, Energy Range: 0.3 - 12 keV, Shuttle-borne instrument
BeppoSAX - Broad band energy. X-ray imaging the
sources associated with Gamma-ray bursts and determining their positions with an
unprecedented precision. (1996 - 2002)
CGRO - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
First Great Gamma-Ray observatory. Discovery of an isotropic distribution of the
Gamma-ray bursts. (1991 - 2000)
Copernicus -
Lifetime: Aug 1972 - late 1980, Energy Range: 0.5 - 10 keV
COS-B -
Lifetime: Aug 1975 - Apr 1982, Energy Range: 2 keV - 5 GeV"
DXS -
Lifetime: Jan 1993, Energy Range: 0.15 - 0.28 keV, Shuttle-borne instrument
Einstein -
Lifetime: Nov 1978 - Apr 1981, Energy Range: 0.2 - 20 keV
OSO-8 -
Lifetime: Jun 1975 - Sep 1978, Energy Range: 0.15 keV - 1 MeV
ROSAT - Roentgen Satellite. All-sky survey in
the soft X-ray band with catalog containing more than 150000 objects. (1990 - 1999)
RXTE - Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.
Lifetime: Dec 1995 - Jan 2012, Energy Range: 1.5 - 240 keV, very large
collecting area and all-sky soft X-ray monitor, precision timing with 1
microsecond resolution
SAS-2 -
Lifetime: Nov 1972 - Jun 1973, Energy Range: 20 Mev - 1 GeV
SAS-3 -
Lifetime: May 1975 - 1979, Energy Range: 0.1 - 60 keV
Tenma -
Lifetime: Feb 1983 - late 1984, Energy Range: 0.1 - 60 keV
Uhuru -
Lifetime: Dec 1970 - Mar 1973, Energy Range: 2 - 20 keV
Vela 5B -
Lifetime: May 1969 - Jun 1979, Energy Range: 3 - 750 keV
