Payload / Mission
Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
Type
Astrophysics
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
The XTE (X-Ray Timing Explorer), renamed on orbit RXTE (Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer) mission has the primary objective to study the temporal and broad-band spectral phenomena associated with stellar and galactic systems containing compact objects in the energy range 2--200 keV and in time scales from microseconds to years.
