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Cos-B
Date: 9 Aug 1975

Cos-B was the first European Space Agency mission to study gamma-ray sources. It had one function - pointing in the direction of a star or other object and measuring its gamma-ray emissions. It was a forerunner of the Integral mission.

Credit: European Space Agency
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