Instrument for X-ray astronomy. An engineering model of an X-ray polarimeter being lowered into a vacuum test chamber. This instrument is seen during

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Instrument for X-ray astronomy. An engineering model of an X-ray polarimeter being lowered into a vacuum test chamber. This instrument is seen during final testing in late 1993. It will be sent into space on the Russian Spektrum-X-Gamma orbiting observatory in 1995.

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Keywords: -ray, astronomical, astronomy, astrophysics, instrument, model, polarimeter, satellite, spektrum--gamma, test, xray