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EXOSAT

(European X-ray Observatory Satellite, HELOS)
(1980s European space X-ray telescope)

EXOSAT was a 1980s space X-ray telescope operated by the European Space Agency. (It has no relation to exosatellites.) It used lunar occultation observations to add precision to its observations, having been placed in a highly eccentric orbit to assist in this and to reach far enough from Earth that X-rays are unimpeded. Its surveys included a slew survey, its new discoveries designated by the prefix EXO.


(spacecraft,telescope,X-ray,ESA,European,past,eccentricity)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXOSAT
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Exosat_overview
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/exosat/exosat-me-slew-survey
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981SSRv...30..479T/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985IrAJ...17...31R/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986JBAA...96..259./abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988MmSAI..59....7W/abstract
PrefixExample  
EXOEXO 0706.1+5913slew survey
GPSGPS 1722-363galactic plane surveyhttps://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988MNRAS.232..551W/abstract

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