"JET-X" redirects here. Not to be confused with Jetix or JetX.
The Joint European Telescope for X-ray astronomy (JET-X) was a space telescope which was constructed as part of the Spectrum-X-Gamma project and completed in 1994 but never actually launched. It is now on display in the Science Museum, London.[1]
JET-X on display in the Science Museum, London
It was a join cooperation of the UK, Italy, West Germany and the Soviet Union and consists of two Wolter I X-ray telescopes.[2]
Flight spare mirrors from JET-X were used to build the X-ray Telescope which is one of the instruments on the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory[3]
Referencesedit
^Science Museum Joint European X-ray Telescope (JET-X)
^K. A. Pounds (1990) "The Joint European Telescope for X-Ray Astronomy (Jet-X)", pp111–8 in Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond (Proceedings of the 123rd Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A., April 24–27, 1990) ISBN978-94-010-5528-4
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