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Chandra X-ray Observatory
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NASA space observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a NASA space telescope that detects X-rays from extremely hot objects and energetic events in space, such as black holes, supernova explosions, and galaxy clusters. By observing these high-energy phenomena that visible light telescopes cannot detect, Chandra helps scientists understand some of the universe's most extreme and violent processes.
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Official website
Chandra X-ray Observatory - NASA's flagship X-ray telescope
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space telescope
- Part of
- Great Observatories program
- Named after
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Operator
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Followed by
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- Parent body
- Earth
- Mass
- 976.6
- Orbital period
- 3808.738
- Manufacturer
- Ball Aerospace & Technologies
- Official website
- cxc.harvard.edu
- Image
- Chandra X-ray Observatory spacecraft model.png
- Width
- 19.5
- Length
- 13.8
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- Commons category
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1999-07-23
- topic's main category
- Category:Chandra X-ray Observatory
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- space launch vehicle
- Space Shuttle
- type of orbit
- highly elliptical orbit
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 80787.8
- periapsis
- 1487.8
- apoapsis
- 147331.6
- orbital inclination
- 38.6737
- longitude of ascending node
- 207.8868
- argument of periapsis
- 226.3911
- mean anomaly
- 0.4032
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.9026344
- focal length
- 10
- social media followers
- 390574
- powered by
- nickel–hydrogen battery
- epoch
- March 21, 2023
- space tug
- Inertial Upper Stage
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Encyclopedic overview
NASA Great Observatories
Large Strategic Science Missions Astrophysics Division
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