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ROSAT
ROSAT produced the first all-sky survey with an imaging X-ray telescope, cataloguing hundreds of thousands of X-ray sources before reentering the atmosphere in 2011.
Technical specifications
CATEGORY
Observatory
TYPE
Telescope
COUNTRY
Germany
OPERATOR
DLR / NASA / UKSA
LAUNCH DATE
Jun 1, 1990
LAUNCH SITE
Cape Canaveral
ORBIT CLASS
LEO
ALTITUDE · KM
132
ORBITAL PERIOD · MIN
87.11
INCLINATION · DEG
52.98
APOGEE · KM
137
PERIGEE · KM
126
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