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    XEUS Graphics

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    • Title XEUS Graphics
    • Released: 24/02/2011
    • Language M/E only
    • Footage Type Animation
    • Copyright ESA
    • Description

      XEUS is an imaginative science mission under study by ESA. If it is built, it becomes the follow up to ESA's XMM/Newton observatory, the world's most powerful tlelscope for x-rays launched in December 1999.
      XEUS is imagined to be built in two stages: First XEUS-1 would be launched like a satellite, or better, two satellites; however, the x-ray mirror block and the detector module are separated by several dozen metres, and are kept aligned to extreme accuracy in orbit. The second stage of XEUS involves the International Space Station. Its logistical capabilities, and its robotic arm, will be used to assemble in orbit a telescope with 30 sqm x-ray mirror size.
      This video includes a 4-minute presentation of XEUS entirely in 3-D graphic images.
      The 4-minute presentation is looped untill tc 00.15.36

      00.03.50 Opening title slate: X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy.
      ALL GRAPHIC ANIMATIONS
      Ariane 5 launch with XEUS-1
      Seperation of XEUS-1 from Ariane 5
      Detector spacecraft with large solar panels positions 50m from mirror spacecraft
      Detector spacecraft uses ion thrusters to precisely follow mirror focus
      International Space Station
      Shuttle launch and docking with ISS
      Detector spacecraft docking with mirror spacecraft
      MIrror spacecraft docking with ISS
      Shuttle robotic arm removing palet with additonal mirrors and hands to ISS robotic arm
      ERA adds mirror segments to mirror spacecraft
      Enlarged mirror spacecraft undocks from ISS
      Proton releasing new detector spacecraft
      New detector docks with enlarged mirror spacecraft
      Detector spacecraft follows new enlarged mirror spacecraft in new orbit
      00.07.46 End of 3D Sequence. Same sequence in loop now.
      00.15.36 END of TAPE

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    • Length 03:56:00
    • Format BETACAM
    • Commercial Use No
    • Author copy 02/2006

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    • Activity Space Science
    • Mission XEUS
    • System Ariane 5, ISS
    • Action Animating, Docking, Launching
    • Keywords Satellites, Telescope, X-rays

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