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Mission Planning for the CHANDRA X-Ray ObservatoryThe CHANDRA x-ray observatory started life as the Advanced X-ray Facility (AXAF) but was renamed Chandra in December of 1998 at the of a nationwide contest by NASA to name the new observatory. The honors the Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist S. Chandrasekar who astrophysics at the University of Chicago for more than 50 years, following graduate studies at Cambridge University in England. The observatory has been under construction for a decade under the management of the Observatory observatory, Projects office at the Marshall Space Flight Center; the same office that oversaw the construction of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. This observatory is a member of NASA's great observatory series of missions of which Hubble and Compton are members. This paper describes the mission planning that was conducted at MSFC to design the orbit and launch window that would permit the new observatory to function properly.
Document ID
19990100965
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Mullins, Larry D.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Stone, Russell, L.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Evans, Steven W.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1999
Subject Category
Astronomy
Meeting Information
Meeting: Astrodynamics Specialists Conference
Location: Girdwood, AK
Country: United States
Start Date: August 16, 1999
End Date: August 19, 1999
Sponsors: American Astronomical Societym, American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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