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Chandra X-ray Observatory Chandra X-ray Telescope 1999-040B Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility AXAF

The Chandra X-ray Observatory, previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. Wikipedia

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A satellite launched by NASA in 1999, and named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Wikipedia Disambiguation

NASA space observatory Wikidata

IS A

astronomy satellite

PART OF

Great Observatories program

CARRIES SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT

Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer

LETGS

FOLLOWED BY

Spitzer Space Telescope

FOLLOWS

Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

MANUFACTURER

Ball Aerospace & Technologies

Kodak

NAMED AFTER

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

OPERATOR

Marshall Space Flight Center

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

PARENT ASTRONOMICAL BODY

Earth

solar array

nickel–hydrogen battery

START POINT

Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B

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Chandra X-ray Observatory

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Chandra X-ray Observatory

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1999-040B, Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, AXAF, Chandra (spacecraft), Chandra observatory, Chandra Space Telescope, Chandra telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Chandra X-ray observatory, Chandra X-ray space telescope, Chandra X-ray telescope, Chandra X-ray Telescope, CHDR, CXRO

Wikidata Alias

Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, AXAF, Chandra satellite, CXO