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A German-led X-ray space telescope launched in 1990 with contributions from the United States and United Kingdom, which produced the first all-sky survey conducted in X-rays with an imaging telescope. Its catalog of over 100,000 X-ray sources became a foundational reference for X-ray astronomy before the mission ended in 1999.

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