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ESA's XMM Telescope Sends Self-Portrait

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HOUSTON, Dec. 15 --The European Space Agency's X-Ray Multi Mirror (XMM) spacecraft has transmitted images of itself in space. Launched Dec. 10 from Korou, French Guyana aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle, XMM consists of three coaligned high-throughput 7.5-m focal length telescopes with angular resolution of six arc seconds FWHM (15 arc seconds HPD). NASA is providing critical components for two of the XMM spacecraft's three science instruments and participating in the mission's science-observing program. XMM will use the European Photon Imaging Camera, which consists of two metal-oxide...Read full article

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    Published: December 1999
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