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13 Jun 2019 15:54

The small fleet of X-ray space scouts will soon be expanded to include a flagship. On 21 June 2019, the German telescope eRosita will launch from the Russian Baikonur space-port into space. On a platform on board the Proton M launcher, there is a Russian telescope called Art-XC alongside eRosita. The main goal of the eRosita mission--developed and built by a consortium of German institutes led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching--is the first complete sky survey ...
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