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NASA
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Goddard Space Flight Center
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November 18
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1989
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Delta rocket
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Earth orbit
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Spectrophotometer
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Radiometer
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satellite
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cosmology
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cosmic microwave background radiation
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universe
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big-bang
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theory
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George Smoot
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John Mather
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Nobel Prize in Physics
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cosmology
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1974
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NASA
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Explorer
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Infrared Astronomical Satellite
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IRAS
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1976
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Delta rocket
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microwave
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CMB
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George Smoot
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John Mather
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November 18
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1989
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IRAS
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helium
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dewar
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IRAS
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Space Shuttle
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1988
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Challenger explosion
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sun-synchronous orbit
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November 18
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1989
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April 23
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1992
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New York Times
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Nobel Prize in Physics
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IRAS
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Earth
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Sun
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Moon
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anisotropy
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zodiacal cloud
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momentum wheels
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Shuttle
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radiation belts
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IRAS
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quadrupole
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black-body
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sounding rocket
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Steady State theory
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anisotropy
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kelvin
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Big Bang
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structure formation
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IRAS
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spiral galaxies
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IRAS
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interplanetary dust
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asteroidal
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Galactic disk
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kpc
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Zodiacal light
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Saturn
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Jupiter
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extragalactic background light
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star formation
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Charles L. Bennett
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Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
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RELIKT-1
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9997 COBE
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minor planet
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PDF
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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ISBN 0-521-65833-0
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doi
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doi
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doi
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doi
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doi
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doi
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doi
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ISBN 0-07-246570-0
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doi
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arΧiv
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arΧiv
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ISBN 0-380-72044-2
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ISBN 0-465-01576-X
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cosmic microwave background radiation
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Discovery of CMB radiation
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List of CMB experiments
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Timeline of CMB astronomy
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Sachs-Wolfe
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Sunyaev-Zel'dovich
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Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
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RELIKT-1
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WMAP
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Planck
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SPOrt
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QMAP
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MAXIMA
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BOOMERanG
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Archeops
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Spider
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EBEX
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Saskatoon
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MAT
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COSMOSOMAS
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Tenerife Experiment
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DASI
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CBI
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CAT
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ACBAR
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CAPMAP
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VSA
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QUaD
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SPT
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SZA
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ACT
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AMI
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Clover
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QUIET
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AMiBA
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v
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Explorer program
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Explorer 1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6 (S-2)
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7 (S-1a)
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8 (S-56)
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11 (S-15)
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17 (AE-A)
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30 (Solrad)
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32 (AE-B)
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33 (IMP-D)
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35 (IMP-E)
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42 (Uhuru)
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48 (SAS B)
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49 (RAE-B)
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52 (Hawkeye 1)
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53 (SAS C)
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57 (IUE)
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59 (ICE)
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62 (DE-1)
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63 (DE-2)
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64 (SME)
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67 (EUVE)
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68 (SAMPEX)
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69 (RXTE)
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70 (FAST)
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71 (ACE)
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73 (TRACE)
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74 (SWAS)
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75 (WIRE)
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77 (FUSE)
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78 (IMAGE)
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79 (HETE-2)
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80 (WMAP)
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81 (RHESSI)
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82 (CHIPSat)
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83 (GALEX)
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84 (Swift)
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85 thru 89 (THEMIS)
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90 (AIM)
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Space telescopes
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AGILE
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Chandra X-ray Observatory
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COROT
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Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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GALEX
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HETE-2
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Hubble Space Telescope
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INTEGRAL
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LEGRI
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MOST
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PAMELA
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Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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Suzaku
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Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
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SWAS
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TRACE
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WMAP
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Wide Field Infrared Explorer
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XMM-Newton
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RadioAstron
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TAUVEX
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Astrosat
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Herschel Space Observatory
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Kepler Mission
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Planck satellite
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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
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NuSTAR
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Spectrum-X-Gamma
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Gaia mission
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ASTRO-G
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TESS
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James Webb Space Telescope
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New Worlds Mission
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Space Interferometry Mission
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Darwin Mission
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Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
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XEUS
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Constellation-X Observatory
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Dark Energy Space Telescope
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Terrestrial Planet Finder
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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
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ABRAXIS
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AKARI
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Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
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ALEXIS
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Aryabhata
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Astro 2
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Astron
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Astronomical Netherlands Satellite
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BeppoSAX
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Broad Band X-ray Telescope
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Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
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Copernicus Observatory
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Cos-B
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Einstein Observatory
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EXOSAT
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Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
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Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
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Ginga
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Granat
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Hakucho
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HALCA
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HETE
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HEAO-1
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HEAO-3
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Hipparcos
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Infrared Space Observatory
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International Ultraviolet Explorer
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IRAS
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Midcourse Space Experiment
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Odin
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OAO-2
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RELIKT-1
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ROSAT
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SAS-B
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Tenma
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Uhuru
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Yohkoh
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Eddington mission
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Space observatory
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List of space telescopes
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Great Observatories program
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