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X-ray monitoring mission comes to an end (MIT)

On Dec. 30, 1995, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was launched into
orbit on a mission to observe and study X-ray sources in space. For 16 years,
the satellite circled Earth, detecting X-rays emitted by some of our galaxy’s
most extreme phenomena: bursting pulsars, flaring neutron stars and massive,
spinning black holes. The instruments aboard RXTE — including one engineered
by MIT researchers — captured data that helped scientists make major
discoveries in X-ray astronomy for more than a decade.

Earlier this year, RXTE sent its last data transmission to Earth, and on Jan.
5, NASA decommissioned the aging satellite. Meanwhile, astronomers at MIT and
elsewhere will continue to comb through RXTE’s data to gain new understanding
of the galaxy’s X-ray-emitting sources.

“There are some sources that came and went and we saw them for two days and
never saw them again,” says Alan Levine, a principal investigator on the
mission and a principal research scientist at MIT’s Kavli Institute for
Astrophysics and Space Research. “And there are others where we saw them every
day for 16 years.”

* Video: See 10 years of continuous monitoring from RXTE

Levine was part of a team ...

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