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The SAX satellite, whose launch is foreseen for the second half of 1992, will be devoted to spectral and variability studies of celestial sources over a wide energy range, from 0.1 to 200 keV. This paper gives a synthetic description of the instruments and of the scientific objectives of the mission.
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Perola, G.C. (1988). The Sax X-Ray Astronomy Mission. In: Pallavicini, R. (eds) Hot Thin Plasmas in Astrophysics. NATO ASI Series, vol 249. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3065-0_27
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