Photo: Bill Ingalls · Public domain (US government)

Delta II | Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

Success US Air Force, Delta II 7920-10

Mission

Astrophysics · LEO

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…

Remind me

Before liftoff
Also notify me of

If the launch moves, your reminders move with it, and at the time of your first reminder we tell you the new date.