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单词 Uhuru
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Uhuru

Astronomy
  • The SAS-1 satellite, launched from a platform called San Marco off the coast of Kenya in 1970 December and named Uhuru after the Swahili for Freedom; also known as Explorer 42. It carried out the first survey of the X-ray sky. In all it discovered 339 sources before it ceased working in 1973 March.

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/uhuru/uhuru.html Information page at Goddard Space Flight Center.


Space Exploration
  • The first satellite mission dedicated totally to celestial X-ray astronomy. It was the first of NASA's Small Astronomy Satellite series, but launched from the San Marco platform in Kenya in December 1970 on the seventh anniversary of Kenyan independence. Before its lifespan ended in March 1973, Uhuru discovered the diffuse X-ray emission from clusters of galaxies, and detected 339 X-ray sources from supernova remnants, binaries, and galaxies.


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