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ACTIVE MISSIONS
   AGILE    AstroSat
   CALET    Chandra
   Fermi    HXMT-Insight
   INTEGRAL    IXPE
   MAXI    NICER
   NuSTAR    SRG-
  eROSITA/ART-XC
   Swift    XMM-Newton
PAST MISSIONS
   ANS    ARIEL V
   ASCA    BBXRT
   BeppoSAX    CGRO
   COPERNICUS    COS-B
   DXS    EINSTEIN
   EUVE    EXOSAT
   GINGA    GRANAT
   HaloSat    HAKUCHO
   HEAO-1    HEAO-3
   HETE-2    Hitomi
   OSO-7    OSO-8
   ROSAT    Rossi XTE
   SAS-2    SAS-3
   Suzaku    TENMA
   UHURU    VELA 5B
    WASS    XQC

BBXRT Gallery


artist concept of BBXRT in the Shuttle bay in flight

    * Artist's conception of Astro-1 in flight

    * Diagram of the Astro-1 shuttle payload
    which shows that the BBXRT is the instrument package at the back of the shuttle cargo bay. The instruments in the front consist of the other Astro-1 instruments: the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT), and Wisconsin Ultraviolet Planetary Photometry Experiment (WUPPE).

    * Diagram of the BBXRT support structure

    * Diagram of the BBXRT telescope

    * Relative orientation and offset of the BBXRT pixels

    * BBRXT telescope being prepared for insertion in the shuttle



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