Notable satellite observatories
- Notable satellite observatories
-
Notable satellite observatories
name nationality years in
service discoveries/
notable features
Radio (wavelengths less than 0.1 cm)
VLBI Space Observatory Programme (
VSOP)
Japan 1997–
2005 joined with radio telescopes (
telescope)
on Earth to form an array 33,
000 km across
Infrared (wavelengths between 0.1 cm and 7 × 10−5 cm)
Netherlands 1983 first space observatory to map the entire sky at infrared wavelengths
Optical (wavelengths between 4 × 10−5 and 7 × 10−5 cm)
Hipparcos ESA*
1989–
93 measured the distances to more than 100,
000 stars (
star)
Hubble Space Telescope (
HST) (
Hubble Space Telescope)
U.
S./
ESA 1990–
accurately determined the rate of the universe'
s expansion
Ultraviolet (wavelengths between 4 × 10−5 and 10−8 cm)
X-ray (wavelengths between 10−8 and 10−11 cm)
Röntgensatellit (ROSAT) Germany 1990–99 surveyed the entire sky
Gamma-ray (wavelengths less than 10−11 cm)
Swift U.S. 2004– studied hundreds of gamma-ray bursts
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