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XMM upper module in the Large Space Simulator at ESTEC


Date: 02 March 1999
Satellite: XMM
Depicts: Testing at ESTEC
Copyright: ESA

Looking down on the Focal Plane of the XMM Upper Module in the Large Space Simulator at ESTEC. The white disks and the black semi-rectangles are radiators that cool the EPIC MOS cameras and RGS spectrometers respectively. The grey rectangle in the middle is the radiator for the EPIC p-n camera.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
21-Apr-2026 16:30 UT

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