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Spektr-RG

(SRG, SXG, Spectrum-X-Gamma)
(Russian-German X-ray observatory launched in 2019)

Spektr-RG (SRG) is a German/Russian X-ray space observatory launched in July 2019 for observation from the L2 Lagrangian point. Instruments:

In early 2022 with advent of the Ukraine war, German/Russian cooperation with ceased and eROSITA is presumed shut down.


The name SPEKTR-RG was earlier used for a planned spacecraft in the 1990s which was canceled and never deployed. It was to have the following instruments:


(spacecraft,observatory,X-ray,L2,German,Russian)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spektr-RG
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spektr_rg.html
https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/spektrg-srg
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/eROSITA
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_jetx/spectrxgamma.html
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
41pm7.3EHz30keVbeginSpektr-RG
4.2nm73PHz0.3keVendSpektr-RG
PrefixExample  
SRGASRGA J204318.2+443815ARX-XC discovery

Referenced by pages:
eROSITA
Lagrangian point
Wolter telescope
X-ray

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