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NASA launched the RXTE satellite to begin observations

On the 30th December, 1995, NASA launched it’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite into low-Earth orbit, to observe black holes, neutron stars, X-ray pulsars and more.

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One of the fathers of television, Vladimir Zworykin, despised what it had become, and once said of it, “I would never let my own children watch it.”

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NASA launched the RXTE satellite to begin observations

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