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    The Multi-spectral solar telescope array, or MSSTA, was a sounding rocket payload built by Professor A.B.C. Walker, Jr. at Stanford University in the...
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    normal incidence is possible. This technology was pioneered by the NIXT and MSSTA sounding rockets in the 1990s, and it has been used to make telescopes for...
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    build, calibrate, and launch the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array (MSSTA), which pioneered normal incidence extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray imaging...
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  • which is not possible using visible light. NIXT and its sister rocket, the MSSTA, were the prototypes for all normal-incidence EUV imaging instruments in...
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  • Solar imaging with multilayer EUV optics was pioneered in the 1990s by the MSSTA and NIXT sounding rockets, each of which flew on several five-minute missions...
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    field of experimental astrophysics of the Sun include: early work on the MSSTA, a sounding rocket that prototyped modern normal-incidence EUV optics such...
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    observations of the Sun in x-rays Multi-spectral solar telescope array (MSSTA), a rocket launched payload of UV telescopes in the 1990s Leoncito Astronomical...
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    first used for solar imaging in the late 1980s and 1990s, notably by the MSSTA and NIXT sounding rocket payloads. The telescope is of Cassegrain design...
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  • axions from the early 2000s onwards Multi-spectral solar telescope array (MSSTA), a rocket launched payload of UV telescopes in the 1990s Leoncito Astronomical...
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  • payload was recovered. Spaceflight portal NIXT (Sounding rocket program) MSSTA "NASA-Funded Sounding Rocket Will Take 1500 Images of Sun in 5 Minutes"...
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