Oct 9 2000
From The Space Library
The High Energy Transient Explorer Mission (HETE-2) launched aboard a Hybrid Pegasus expendable launch vehicle, from Kwajalein missile-range facility on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The Center for Space Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology headed the HETE-2 mission, designed to detect and localize gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using a set of instruments that would allow simultaneous observations of the GRBs. The craft would compute locations of GRBs and immediately transmit the coordinates to ground-based observers. HETE-2, an international collaboration among the United States, Japan, France, and Italy, replaced the original HETE spacecraft, which was lost following a rocket malfunction in November 1996. 1006
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