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Anniversary of Einstein Observatory launch

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Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2) was the first fully imaging X-ray telescope  put into space and the second of NASA's three High Energy Astrophysical Observatories.
The Einstein Observatory, HEAO-2, was launched on November 13, 1978, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an Atlas-Centaur SLV-3D booster rocket into a near-circular orbit with an initial altitude slightly above 500 km. Its orbital inclination orbit was 23.5 degrees.
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