Chandra Sails
The large, critical Sun-shade door protecting the mirror assembly of the NASA Chandra X-ray observatory is to be commanded open next week, one of the final steps before ``first light'' planned for late August, when the telescope's instruments are to return the first real data from X-ray sources in...
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