Science and Technology

What is the Uhuru satellite?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/uhuru-satellite-263384.html" >What is the Uhuru satellite?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

In 1970 the Uhuru satellite, one of NASA's small astronomy satellites, began to look specifically for X-ray sources. Uhuru used detectors filled with argon, in which incoming X radiation gives off electrons in amounts proportional to its strength.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about X-ray astronomy . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What is the Uhuru satellite use? When was the Uhuru satellite used? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

CALM AFTER FLORIDA RIOTING MASKS UNDERLYING WOES.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) ...National People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, urged a civil uprising...Sobukwe Nombatu, a member of Uhuru. Hundreds of National Guard...stands, on street corners and at Uhuru headquarters - a football field...said. ``A car flipped over. Satellite trucks were burning. Helicopters...
Planet kitsch
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ...Kuryakin). To be fair, the micro-mini- skirted Lieutenant Uhuru was beginning to exert a strange attraction on us boys (enuff...were the final frontier for Space cadets, but, sufferin' satellites (as Dan Dare would have said), all that embarrassing stuff...
CU's Flag Atop Kilmanjaro.(Quick Reads)
Magazine article from: Credit Union Journal ...the dangers linked to climate change. In a report sent by satellite phone to Credit Union Journal from Mt. Kilmanjaro, the group...635 feet, in time for sunrise. The group pressed on to Uhuru Peak, known as the "rooftop of Africa," and displayed United...
LAST NIGHT; Bearing up well in their natural habitat.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) ...issues. Is space really the final frontier? Why are Lieutenant Uhuru's skirts so short? BBC1, 9.30pm TRAVEL HOLIDAY REPS...Pamela Reed is arrested for armed robbery in TV melodrama. 1992 SATELLITE MOVIE CHOICE THE USUAL SUSPECTS ONE of the films of the 90s...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.