Due to a technical glitch, The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has entered a protective ‘safe mode’, which interrupts scientific observations and puts the spacecraft into a stable configuration.
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes.
Because X-rays are absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, Chandra must orbit above it, up to an altitude of 139,000 km (86,500 mi) in space.
The Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA, hosts the Chandra X-ray Centre which operates the satellite, processes the data, and distributes it to scientists around the world for analysis.
It was launched in 1999 and is named after the Nobel Prize-winning Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
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