Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999stin...9900970m&link_type=abstract
Conference Paper, Astrodynamics Specialists Conference
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Mission Planning, X Ray Astrophysics Facility, Launch Windows, Research Facilities, Astrophysics, Construction, Gamma Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Observatories
Scientific paper
The CHANDRA x-ray observatory started life as the Advanced X-ray Facility (AXAF) but was renamed Chandra in December of 1998 at the of a nationwide contest by NASA to name the new observatory. The honors the Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist S. Chandrasekar who astrophysics at the University of Chicago for more than 50 years, following graduate studies at Cambridge University in England. The observatory has been under construction for a decade under the management of the Observatory observatory, Projects office at the Marshall Space Flight Center; the same office that oversaw the construction of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. This observatory is a member of NASA's great observatory series of missions of which Hubble and Compton are members. This paper describes the mission planning that was conducted at MSFC to design the orbit and launch window that would permit the new observatory to function properly.
Evans Steven W.
Mullins Larry D.
Stone Russell L.
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