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Chandra Overview
Roger Brissenden

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1. Title Page
2. Overview
3. NASA Great Observatories
4. Chandra Mission Summary
5. Chandra Launch
6. Chandra Deployment and Orbit
7. Chandra Operations
8. Operations Architecture
9. Mission Observatory and Description
10. Focusing X-rays
11. CXO Deployed View
12. CXO Spacecraft Block Diagram
13. Spacecraft Subsystems
14. Spacecraft Subsystems (cont)
15. Aspect Camera and Fiducial Transfer System
16. High Resolution Mirror Assembly
17. HRMA and Associated Structures
18. HRMA Effective Area and Encircled Energy
19. Chandra Science Instruments
20. Science Instrument Module
21. Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS)
22. ACIS Layout
23. High Resolution Camera (HRC)
24. HRC Operating Principles
25. Grating Spectrometers HETG and LETG
26. Grating Operating Principles
27. CXC Architecture
28. Supernova Gallery

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