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Mission Milestones
December 1996 - March 1997
In early March 1997, the AXAF support team at Marshall Space Flight Center completed a series of rigorous tests of the X-ray Mirror Assembly at the X-ray calibration facility (XRCF) which was constructed specifically for testing AXAF.
The tests show that when the AXAF telescope is in space, it will produce X-ray images twenty-five times sharper than any previous X-ray telescope. The telescope's resolution is equivalent to being able to read the text of a newspaper from half a mile away.
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