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ROSAT blasts-off
On 1st June 1990, 20 years ago to the day, the ROSAT (ROentgen SATellite) satellite lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Associating NASA, Germany and the United Kingdom, this space observatory was designed and built by the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany, and was to successful study the sky in the X-ray and ultraviolet light wavelengths until 1999.
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ROSAT mission (NASA)

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