Monument for the fist V2-launch from Kapustin Yar in 1947; photo: AIP
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Monument for the fist V2-launch from Kapustin Yar in 1947;
photo: AIP
Interview at the launch site with the local press;
photo: AIP
Launch site in Kapustin Yar with transport vehicle for the
Kosmos rocket; photos: AIP
Launch tower in Kapustin Yar with the Kosmos rocket containing the
ABRIXAS satellite; photos: AIP
Image 1: minutes before the launch - the illuminated Kosmos rocket
in the centre;
images 2-8: ABRIXAS launch; photos: AIP
The ABRIXAS PIs: Joachim Trümper (left)
and Günther Hasinger (right); photo: MPE/AIP
The integrated seven mirror modules; photos: ZEISS
The ABRIXAS telescope in the ROSAT transport container;
photos: AIP
the ABRIXAS X-ray camera (side view); photo: AIP
The ABRIXAS telescope in the MPE's PANTER X-ray test facility
in Neuried, 20-Jan-1999; photos: AIP
PANTER jig for telescope calibration measurements in the
AIP workshop; photo: AIP
ABRIXAS telescope calibration; images: MPE/AIP - from left to right:
- first cross-scan over the central module's field-of-view, 24/25-Jan-1999;
- off-axis image (32 arc minutes off-axis) in logarithmic intensity scale;
- scan of the PANTER X-ray source (central telescope module only)
Mirror module (qualification model); photo: ZEISS
Mirror modules (flight models) in the MPE's PANTER X-ray test facility;
photos: MPE
Satellite (flight model); photos: OHB
Launch of a Kosmos rocket; photo: POLYOT
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