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ACTIVE MISSIONS
   AGILE    AstroSat
   CALET    Chandra
   Fermi    HXMT-Insight
   INTEGRAL    IXPE
   MAXI    NICER
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  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

Spartan 1 Gallery


photo of Spartan 1 in the shuttle bay

Space Shuttle Discovery (STS 51G)

    * Launch of the space shuttle Discovery (STS 51G), carrying the Spartan 1 satellite

    * STS 51G mission patch

    * Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base

Spartan 1

    * Spartan 1 in the Discovery cargo bay

    * Spartan 1 on the Discovery manipulator arm

    * Spartan 1 orbiting the Earth

    * The Spartan 1 carrier, supporting high-energy astrophysics, provides a structure with an optical bnench to accommodate a variety of rectangular array detectors. It is designed to point stellar objects.

    * Diagram of the Spartan 1 carrier.

All images of the SPARTAN carrier series, launches, and recovery, are provided courtesy of NASA.


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