Max Valier (satellite)

Max Valier
COSPAR ID 2017-036P
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Max Valier is a 15 kg X-ray telescopic satellite which was built in a collaboration by the Gewerbeoberschule "Max Valier" Bozen, the Gewerbeoberschule "Oskar von Miller" Meran and the Amateurastronomen "Max Valier". The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics provides the small X-ray telescope µRosi, which allows amateur astronomers for the first time to see the sky in X-ray wavelength. It was launched with help of the OHB in Germany by an Indian PSLV-C38 rocket on June 23, 2017.[1][2]


References

  1. "Max Valier Sat". space.skyrocket.de.
  2. "Max Valier Satellit".
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