NASA, Japan team up for Astro-E2 space X-ray observatory project

The United States and Japan will team up to build and launch a new observatory to measure X-ray emitting sources. Astro-E2, the new observatory, will replace the original Astro-E satellite that was lost in February 2000 due to a first-stage rocket malfunction during launch. The Japanese government...

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