BeppoSAX was named in honour of the Italian physicist Giuseppe `Beppo` Occhialini. SAX stands for `Satellite per Astronomia a raggi X` or `Satellite for X-ray Astronomy`. X-ray observations cannot be performed from ground-based telescopes, since Earth`s atmosphere blocks most of the incoming radiation. One of BeppoSAX`s main achievements w...
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(Satellite per Astronomia a raggi X) A major project of ASI (the Italian Space Agency) with participation of the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programs. It was the first X-ray mission with a scientific payload spanning more than three orders of magnitude in energy –...
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