High Energy Transient Experiment
The original High Energy Transient Experiment was a NASA and MIT Explorer payload designed to detect gamma-ray bursts and coordinate simultaneous gamma-ray, X-ray, and ultraviolet observations. Its onboard instruments were intended to localize bursts rapidly enough for immediate follow-up, an objective later recovered by the separately built HETE-2 mission.
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Identity
- Aliases
- HETEHETE-1HETE 1
- Name
- High Energy Transient Experiment
- Slug
- high-energy-transient-experiment
- Status
- failed
Details
- Astronauts
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- Description
- The original High Energy Transient Experiment was a NASA and MIT Explorer payload designed to detect gamma-ray bursts and coordinate simultaneous gamma-ray, X-ray, and ultraviolet observations. Its onboard instruments were intended to localize bursts rapidly enough for immediate follow-up, an objective later recovered by the separately built HETE-2 mission.
- End Date
- 1996-11-04
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- HETE reached the planned orbit but remained enclosed in the dual-payload structure when the Pegasus third stage failed to execute spacecraft separation. Its solar arrays could not deploy, battery power was exhausted, and no scientific observations were returned.
- Program
- Explorer Program
- Start Date
- 1996-11-04
- Vehicle Families
Links
- Official Url
- https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/14nov96.html
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- Creation Time
- July 18, 2026 at 15:51:18 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 18, 2026 at 15:51:18 UTC
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