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HETE (High-Energy Transient Experiment):
- Mission: Detect/localize gamma-ray bursts; Relay in real time gamma ray burst to ground-based observatories
- Accomplishments: Operational 2/2/01. To date has found 6 exceptional soft gamma-ray bursts; one located in a z=0.4 galaxy
- Collaboration: MIT/French
- Milagro Observatory (Fenton Hill, NM):
- Mission: Observe new sources of TeV photonsóprimordial black holes
- Accomplishments: Discoveries in Andromeda Galaxy includeóx-ray nova outbursts and shortest x-ray pulsation period seen to date
- Collaboration: George Mason U., NYU, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, U. Maryland, U. New Hampshire, and U. Wisconsin XMM (X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission)
- Mission: European Space Agency x-ray/UV/optical observatory
- Accomplishments: x-ray outbursts
- Collaboration: LANL/UCSB provided Digital Processing Unit for the onboard Optical Monitor Instrument
