r3d100010278 The ROSAT Mission Rönten-Astronomie-Wave x-ray satellite https://www.mpe.mpg.de/ROSAT On June 1, 1990 the German X-ray observatory ROSAT started its mission to open a new era in X-ray astronomy. Doubtless, this is the most ambitious project realized up to now in the short history of this young astronomical discipline. Equipped with the largest imaging X-ray telescope ever inserted into an earth orbit ROSAT has provided a tremendous amount of new scientific data and insights. disciplinary about 80.000 cosmic X-ray sources; 6000 sources in the extreme ultraviolet regime 1990-06-01 1999-02-12 deu eng 3 Natural Sciences 311 Astrophysics and Astronomy 31101 Astrophysics and Astronomy 313 Atmospheric Science and Oceanography 32 Physics 34 Geosciences (including Geography) https://projects.mpe.mpg.de/heg/rosat/mission/rosat/mission.html Images Plain text Raw data Scientific and statistical data formats Structured graphics other dataProvider atmosphere galaxy high resolution imager HRI observations position sensitive proportional counter spectroscopy supernova x-ray telescope XRT Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung DEU funding non-profit https://www.bmbf.de/en/index.html ROR:04pz7b180 German Aerospace Center DARA DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DEU general non-profit https://www.dlr.de/EN/Home/home_node.html ROR:04bwf3e34 https://www.dlr.de/rd/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4281/6898_read-10005/ Goddard Space Flight Center, High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center HEASARC USA general non-profit https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/rra/RRA.html https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/archive.html rosathelp@olegacy.gsfc.nasa.gov Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam AIP DEU general non-profit https://www.aip.de/de/ ROR:03mrbr458 hbrunnerl@lmpe.mpg.de Leicester University LU GBR general non-profit https://le.ac.uk/ ROR:04h699437 mbu@star.le.ac.uk Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics MPE Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik DEU general technical non-profit https://www.mpe.mpg.de/main ROR:00e4bwe12 xray-info@mpe.mpg.de Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory SAO USA general non-profit https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/about/about-smithsonian-astrophysical-observatory ROR:04mh52z70 rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu Universität Tübingen, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik IAAT DEU general technical non-profit http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/groups/rosat/ barnstedt@astro.uni-tuebingen.de Data Protection Information https://www.mpe.mpg.de/data-protection open open Copyrights https://www.mpe.mpg.de/impressum closed unknown none unknown yes On 23 October 2011 at 03:50 CEST, the German research satellite ROSAT re-entered the atmosphere over the Bay of Bengal; it is not known whether any parts of the satellite reached Earth's surface. Determination of the time and location of re-entry was based on the evaluation of data provided by international partners, including the USA. Another access to mission data at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/rra/RRA.html 2013-06-13 2021-04-06