Uhuru

Rarity: Uncommon

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What Wikipedia says

Uhuru was the first satellite launched specifically for the purpose of X-ray astronomy. It was also known as the X-ray Explorer Satellite, SAS-A (for Small Astronomy Satellite A, the first of the three-spacecraft SAS series), SAS 1, or Explorer 42.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Uhuru (satellite)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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