Aug 10 1982
From The Space Library
NASA said that Administrator James M. Beggs had signed in Vienna, Austria, a memorandum of understanding with Hans-Hilger Haunschild of the Federal Republic of Germany ministry for research and technology to cooperate in an astrophysics mission called ROSAT (Roentgensatellit), to be launched in 1987. ROSAT would join Galileo and the active magnetospheric particle tracer explorer missions as another cooperative project between NASA and West Germany.
ROSAT would study X-ray emissions of nonsolar celestial objects, surveying specific sources for extended periods. Operating in both a survey and a pointed mode, ROSAT would compile an X-ray source catalog. The Federal Republic of Germany would provide the spacecraft; NASA, the high-resolution imaging detector and Shuttle-launch services; the United Kingdom's science and engineering research council would provide an XUV wide-field camera. NASA and West Germany would invite proposals from the international scientific community for investigations. (NASA Release 82-119)
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