X-ray observatory calls it quits
After 8 years of operation, the X-ray observatory ROSAT was closed down because most of its cameras were no longer working.
References:
1998. End of the ROSAT guest observer programme. ROSAT News No. 67. Available at http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat.
Sources:
Max-Planck-Insitut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik
ROSAT Scientific Data Center
Postfach 1603
D-85740 Garching
GermanyRobert Petre
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
LHEA
Postal Code 666
Greenbelt, MD 20771
From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 24, December 12,
1998, p. 379.
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