ROSAT
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ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit; in German X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, in honour of Wilhelm Röntgen) was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite X-ray telescope, with instruments built by West Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was launched on 1 June 1990, on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, on what was initially designed as an 18-month mission, with provision for up to five years of operation. ROSAT operated for over eight years, finally shutting down on 12 February 1999.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Röntgensatellit
- Spaceflight.names_list
- ROSAT
- Spaceflight.image
- Delta 6920-10 launch with ROSAT.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Launch of the ROSAT in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Space Telescope
- Spaceflight.operator
- DLR / NASA
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 1990-049A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 20638
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 8 years and 8 months
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Delta II 6920-10
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Cape Canaveral LC-17A
- Spaceflight.deactivated
- 12 February 1999
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_eccentricity
- 0
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 53°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 96 min
- Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
- 1990-06-01
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 2426
- Image
- ROSAT one of the last images before reentry.jpg
- Height
- 2.2
- Width
- 4.7
- Length
- 8.9
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- described at URL
- www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/missions-projects/past-missions/rosat/rosat-mission.html
- Commons category
- ROSAT
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1990-06-01
- time of object orbit decay
- 2011-10-23
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Instruments
- {{anchor|XRT}} X-ray Telescope (XRT)
- {{anchor|PSPC}} Position Sensitive Proportional Counters ''(two)'' (PSPC)
- {{anchor|HRI}} High Resolution Imager (HRI)
- {{anchor|WFC}} Wide Field Camera (WFC)
- Highlights
- Catalogues
- See also
- Launch
- End of operations
- Allegations of cyber-attacks causing the failure
- Re-entry
- Successor
- Notes
- References
- See also
- External links
ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit; in German X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, in honour of Wilhelm Röntgen) was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite X-ray telescope, with instruments built by West Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was launched on 1 June 1990, on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, on what was initially designed as an 18-month mission, with provision for up to five years of operation. ROSAT operated for over eight years, finally shutting down on 12 February 1999.
In February 2011, it was reported that the satellite was unlikely to burn up entirely while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere due to the large amount of ceramics and glass used in construction. Parts as heavy as could impact the surface. ROSAT eventually re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 23 October 2011 over the Bay of Bengal.