The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

Russian launch vehicles A Proton-K blasts off from Baikonur
in February 2000 carrying the Garuda-1 satellite. Sergei Kazak
RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer)
ANASA X-ray astronomy satellite designed to study
variability in the energy output of X-ray sources with
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moderate spectral resolution. It was named for the
X-ray astronomy pioneer Bruno Rossi (1905–1993).
Changes in X-ray brightness lasting from microseconds
to months are monitored across abroad spectral range
of 2to 250 keV.RXTE was designed for aminimum
operational lifetime of two years, with agoal of five
years.
Launch
Date: December 30, 1995
Vehicle: Delta 7920
Site: Cape Canaveral
Orbit (circular): 409 km × 29°
Mass: 3,200 kg
Rynin, Nikolai Alexsevitch (1887–1942)
A Russian author whose Mezhplanetnye Soobschniya 253
(Interplanetary Communications), a nine-volume encyclopedia
of space travel, was published from 1928 to
1932. The first seven volumes appeared before a single
book on interplanetary flight had been printed in the
United States or Britain. Rynin also regularly sent out
reports on Russian activities in rocketry to the West.
Ryusei
A ballistic capsule for testing materials and acquiring data
related to atmospheric reentry for use in design of the
Japanese HOPE space plane; “ryusei” means “meteor.”
Launch
Date: February 3, 1994
Vehicle: H-2
Site: Tanegashima
Orbit: 450 × 451 km × 30.5°
Mass: 865 kg