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IXO mirror module

Date: 25 April 2010
Satellite: IXO
Copyright: ESA/Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics/Kayser-Threde/cosine Research

An IXO mirror module mounted inside the PANTER tank in flight representative configuration in the CEC.

IXO was an L-class candidate mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme that was studied between 2007 and 2011.


Last Update: 08 June 2011

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