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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Suzaku XRS: Astro-E2 x-ray satellite trouble

Apparently the X-Ray Spectrometer on the Japanese Suzaku (aka Astro-E2) satellite had a loss of coolant and is defunct. XRS was the Goddard instrument.

Bummer. There are two other detectors. No word yet on how this affects overall mission.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where did you hear about the XRS?.

5:52 PM  
Blogger Steinn said...

e-mail forwarded to me
I trust the source, it was not tagged confidential

11:27 PM  
Blogger Keith Arnaud said...

Unfortunately true. There is an official statement on the suzaku web site now.

The other instruments are fine and the XIS should get first light tomorrow.

6:19 PM  

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