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HETE-2: A small satellite designed to detect and localize gamma-ray bursts
Instruments:
FREGATE (6-400 keV)
Wide-field X-ray Monitor (WXM) (2-25 keV), localization accuracy to ~10 arc-minutes or better.
The soft X-ray camera (SXC) (0.5-10 keV) localization accuracy to 30 arc-seconds or better.
Launched: Oct 9 2000
Operations: MIT/CSR
Archive: HEASARC
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Intro - overview of satellites and
instrumentation