Timeline for Why was the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer decommissioned in 2012? Why wasn't it deployed another ~100 km higher where drag would have been a lot less?
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| Oct 19, 2021 at 23:44 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Sep 20, 2021 at 23:27 | answer | added | BrendanLuke15 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 26, 2021 at 0:20 | comment | added | uhoh | @BrendanLuke15 perhaps you have enough for an answer? If the premise of my question (deployed at only 409 or 375 km) is wrong, that would go a long way, and of course cycle 23 and 24 will have had something to do with it as well... | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 1:49 | comment | added | uhoh | @BrendanLuke15 wow that's very different than the sources I'd found and quoted! | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 1:32 | comment | added | BrendanLuke15 | Note it was initially deployed in a 570 km orbit: SMA plot | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 1:23 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 1:03 | comment | added | uhoh | See also What is a typical “pulse rate” for a black hole “heartbeat”? Is the process better understood than it was in 2011? in Astronomy SE. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 1:02 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 0:55 | history | asked | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
