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RXTE

Bruno Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)

Bruno Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)

RXTE Photos

 

RXTE in orbit RXTE being assembled RXTE in lab RXTE Launch Poster RXTE Team Photos RXTE on launch pad at night RXTE On the shoulders of giants RXTE Up close RXTE Logos 822: RXTE during integration and test at Goddard Space Flight Center showing the two HEXTE clusters below the five PCA detectors which have their red protective covers in place. The teo star trackers are located at the ends of the two black cones (baffles) on the side. 823: RXTE again at Goddard and held at an angle by the support system. The ASM with three scanning shadow cameras and the scanning drive are mounted atop a tripod structure. 824: Mounting of a HEXTE cluster onto the spacecraft structure. 825: The two HEXTE clusters on separate dollies at the UCSD Physics High Bay awaiting shipment to Goddard. Cluster computers and thermal radiators are mounted on the cluster sides and all eight detectors have protective covers over collimators. The cluster on the left also shows the launch lock just above the computer. 826: The spacecraft structure containing 4 PCA detectors and 2 HEXTE clusters in the process of integration at Goddard. 827: The three RXTE principal investigators and the Program Manager at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in front of the Delta II launcher with RXTE inside the protective shroud. Left to right: Dr. Hale Bradt (ASM PI), Dr Jean Swank (RXTE Project Scientist and PCA PI), Mr Dale Schultz (Program Manager), and Dr. Richard Rothschild (HEXTE PI). 828: The Delta II at the launch pad surrounded by the moveable gantry that allowed access to the various components of the rocket and payload during testing and final close-out of the satellite instruments. 829: Delta II and RXTE awating launch the evening before an attempted morning launch. 830: Instant of launch. Six of nine solid rocket boosters have just ignited and the electrical power and signal cables had just released and are in the process of being retracted. 831: RXTE spacecraft with space blankets installed (including over the HEXTE clusters), protective covers over the PCA detectors, and ASM atop. The solar panels are folded in launch configuration and star tracker baffles with protective covers stick out through the space blankets. 832: The two HEXTE clusters in the Spacecraft atop the Delta II with protective covers removed and just before replacement of the solar blankets ot cover the cluster compartment for thermal control. 833: The HEXTE team at UCSD before shipment of the clusters to Goddard.

For More Information:

RXTE: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/xte_1st.html
HEXTE: http://mamacass.ucsd.edu:8080/hexte/hexte.html
PCA: http://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/xrays/programs/rxte/pca/
ASM: http://xte.mit.edu/
RXTE Science Highlights: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/Snazzy/snazzy_sci.html

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