Small Astronomy Satellite 3
(SAS 3, SAS-C, Explorer 53)
(1970s NASA X-ray space telescope)
Small Astronomy Satellite 3 (SAS 3 or SAS-C)
was a NASA X-ray space telescope
launched in 1975, in operation into 1979.
Instrument types:
It was the third in a series of three 1970s NASA satellites called
the Small Astronomical Satellite program.
(telescope,X-ray,spacecraft,NASA,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Astronomy_Satellite_3
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/sas3/sas3.html
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/missions/sas.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984ApJ...287..633M/abstract
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 21pm | 15EHz | 60keV | begin | Small Astronomy Satellite 3 |
| 12nm | 24PHz | .1keV | end | Small Astronomy Satellite 3 |
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| Prefix | Example | | |
| 2S | 2S 0114+65 | list 2 | |
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