National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Sit back and enjoy a movie, courtesy of RXTE! Watch a movie about:

RXTE Science
RXTE Satellite
RXTE Launch

RXTE Science

• The High Energy Groovie Movie - New! Check out RXTE's first music video, featuring black holes, pulsars, and the night sky viewed with "X-ray eyes."

• The ASM Movie - the XTE All-Sky Monitor (ASM) team speeds up time, showing you years of observations of the X-ray sky in just minutes!

  New ASM Movie: 10 years of RXTE!
  A ten-year, time-lapsed movie of the Galaxy. The caption describes objects featured in the video. Or, compare to the earlier movie ("Original ASM Movie," below), which has labels in the video.

  • Caption for 10-year Movie
  • Full 10-year Movie(.mov format, 66 MB)
  • Full 10-year Movie(.swf format, 20 MB)
  • Shorter periods from the ASM 10-year Movie:
    
    • years 2004-2005(.mov format, 14 MB)
    • years 2002-2004(.mov format, 16 MB)
    • years 2000-2002(.mov format, 16 MB)
    • years 1998-2000(.mov format, 16 MB)
    • years 1996-1998(.mov format, 17 MB)

  Original ASM Movie: The First 4 Years of RXTE
  Four years in 5 minutes. This version includes includes text labels in the video, highlighting objects of interest.

  • Press release for 4-year movie (by the ASM team, MIT)
  • full 4-year ASM movie - 44MB
  • full 4-year ASM movie - gzipped - 20 MB
  • shorter press-release version of 4-year movie - 17 MB
  • shorter press-release version of 4-year movie- gzipped - 5 MB

• Galactic Center Scans - see the objects at the center of our galaxy change as RXTE repeatedly scans the Milky Way's heart (Markwardt, C., primary investigator)
  • animated GIF
  • .mov file

• "Old Faithful" Black Hole - movies and press about a special Black Hole in our galaxy

• RXTE Discovers Millisecond Pulsar - movies and press about an X-ray emitting Neutron Star that rotates more than 400 times in one second (or once every 2.5 milliseconds!)

RXTE Satellite

• RXTE being put into orbit by Delta II rocket (final stage)
  • AVI Format
  • Quick TIme Format
  • Text translation

• RXTE satellite overview
  • AVI Format
  • Quick Time Format
  • Text translation

• The RXTE satellite in orbit
  • AVI Format
  • Quick Time Format
  • Text translation

• RXTE repositions to observe a new target
  • AVI Format
  • Quick Time Format
  • Text translation

• The High Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) Instrument
  • AVI Format
  • Quick Time Format
  • Text translation

• The Proportional Counter Array (PCA) Instrument
  • AVI Format
  • Quick Time Format
  • Text translation

• The All-Sky Monitor (ASM) Instrument
  • AVI Format
  • Quick Time Format
  • Text translation

RXTE Launch

• Images and Videos
  • GIF image of Take-off
  • View 1AVI format
  • View 1 Quick Time format
  • View 2 AVI format
  • View 2 Quick Time Format
  • Jettison of Delta rocket boostersAvi Format
  • Jettison of Delta rocket boostersQuick Time Format

• Audio Launch of RXTE - audio & text files describing the launch
  • Short/ Long AU version for Macintosh, PC, SGI
  • Long AIFF-C format for Macintosh
  • Long WAV format for PC
  • Long AU format for Sun
  • Long RealAudio for Macintosch and PC.
  • Short text version of the audio file.
  • Long text version of the audio file.

• Eye-witness accounts of the launch

• Pre-Launch Activities - movies and images of RXTE's rocket on the pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Flight Center
  • Pre-launch picture
  • Avi Format
  • Quick Time format

This page is maintained by the RXTE GOF and was last modified on Wednesday, 24-Aug-2022 11:10:31 EDT.