ACTIVE MISSIONS    AGILE    Chandra    Fermi (formerly GLAST)    INTEGRAL    Rossi XTE    Suzaku    Swift    XMM-Newton PAST MISSIONS    ANS    ARIEL V    ASCA    BBXRT    BeppoSAX    CGRO    COPERNICUS    COS-B    DXS    EINSTEIN    EUVE    EXOSAT    GINGA    GRANAT    HAKUCHO    HEAO-1    HEAO-3    HETE-2    OSO-7    OSO-8    ROSAT    SAS-2    SAS-3    TENMA    UHURU    VELA 5B

Selected Past Missions ANS - Lifetime: Aug 1974 - June 1977, Energy Range: 0.1 - 30 keV and 1500-3300 Angstoms Ariel V - Lifetime: Oct 1974 - Mar 1980, Energy Range: 0.3 - 40 keV ASCA - First X-ray mission to combine imaging capability with broad pass band, good spectral resolution, and a large effective area. (1993 - 2001) BBXRT - Lifetime: Dec 1990, Energy Range: 0.3 - 12 keV, Shuttle-borne instrument BeppoSAX - Broad band energy. X-ray imaging the sources associated with Gamma-ray bursts and determining their positions with an unprecedented precision. (1996 - 2002) CGRO - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. First Great Gamma-Ray observatory. Discovery of an isotropic distribution of the Gamma-ray bursts. (1991 - 2000) Copernicus - Lifetime: Aug 1972 - late 1980, Energy Range: 0.5 - 10 keV COS-B - Lifetime: Aug 1975 - Apr 1982, Energy Range: 2 keV - 5 GeV" DXS - Lifetime: Jan 1993, Energy Range: 0.15 - 0.28 keV, Shuttle-borne instrument Einstein - Lifetime: Nov 1978 - Apr 1981, Energy Range: 0.2 - 20 keV EUVE - Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer. First dedicated extreme ultraviolet mission. (1992 - 2001) EXOSAT - Lifetime: May 1983 - Apr 1986, Energy Range: 0.05 - 20 keV, 90-hour highly eccentric Earth orbit Ginga - Lifetime: Feb 1987 - Nov 1991, Energy Range: 1 - 400 keV Granat - Lifetime: Dec 1989 - Nov 1998, Energy Range: 2 keV - 100 MeV Hakucho - Lifetime: Feb 1979 - Apr 1985, Energy Range: 0.1 - 100 keV HEAO-1 - Lifetime: Aug 1977 - Jan 1979, Energy Range: 0.2 - 10 keV HEAO-3 - Lifetime: Sep 1979 - May 1981, Energy Range: 50 keV - 10 MeV HETE-2 - Lifetime: Oct 2000 - Oct 2006, Energy Range: 0.5 - 400 keV, designed to detect and localize gamma-ray bursts OSO-7 - Lifetime: Sep 1971 - Jul 1974, Energy Range: 1 keV - 10 MeV OSO-8 - Lifetime: Jun 1975 - Sep 1978, Energy Range: 0.15 keV - 1 MeV ROSAT - Roentgen Satellite. All-sky survey in the soft X-ray band with catalog containing more than 150000 objects. (1990 - 1999) SAS-2 - Lifetime: Nov 1972 - Jun 1973, Energy Range: 20 Mev - 1 GeV SAS-3 - Lifetime: May 1975 - 1979, Energy Range: 0.1 - 60 keV Tenma - Lifetime: Feb 1983 - late 1984, Energy Range: 0.1 - 60 keV Uhuru - Lifetime: Dec 1970 - Mar 1973, Energy Range: 2 - 20 keV Vela 5B - Lifetime: May 1969 - Jun 1979, Energy Range: 3 - 750 keV