Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Mission
Launch Status
Success
Date & Time
30 Dec 1995, 1:48pm
UTC
Pad
Space Launch Complex 17A
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
Mission Type
Astrophysics
Destination
Low Earth Orbit
The XTE (X-Ray Timing Explorer), renamed on orbit RXTE (Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer) mission has the primary objective to study the temporal and broad-band spectral phenomena associated with stellar and galactic systems containing compact objects in the energy range 2--200 keV and in time scales from microseconds to years.
Updated: Jan 3, 7:58pm UTC
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