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Space telescope CGRO. Artwork.
author: L.Bret/Novapix
reference: e-sou01-59001
Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 23 cm
The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was the second of NASA's Great Observatories. Compton, at 17 tons, was the heaviest astrophysical payload ever flown at the time of its launch on April 5, 1991 aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Compton was safely deorbited and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on June 4, 2000.
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