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    • Title XMM Campaign Video
    • Released: 10/12/1999
    • Length 00:09:14
    • Language English
    • Footage Type VNR
    • Copyright ESA - European Space Agency
    • Description

      Rushes of the arrival and launch preparations at Guiana Space Centre, Kourou of ESA's XMM observatory, due for launch by Ariane 504 on December 9th.
      This highly-animated series provides a pre-launch background summary of the mission, and is arranged as follows -
      AN OBSERVATORY IN SPACE - why we need XMM, what it will do, how it will work; construction of XMM'; a look at the violent Universe
      NEWS OF EXPLODED STARS - what forms a supernova, and how XMM will study them
      GIANT BLACK HOLES - a description of black holes and XMM's capacity to look at the X-rays they emit.

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    • Length 09:15:00
    • Format BETACAM
    • Commercial Use No

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    • Activity Space Science
    • Mission XMM-Newton
    • System XMM-Newton Satellite
    • Keywords Astronomy, Astronomy & Fundamental Physics, Astronomy techniques, Observatory

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