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HETE-2
NASA and MIT

Launch Year: 2000
Agency: NASA and MIT Center for Space Research
For more information: http://space.mit.edu/HETE/

High Energy Transient Explorer 2 was designed to detect and localize transcient X-ray and Gamma-ray phenomena such as Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). Three years after the malfunction of HETE's launch vehicle, astronomers in France, Italy, Japan, and the United States collaborated for a second attempt. HETE is designed to detect and localize gamma-ray bursts. HETE was successfully launched and began routine detection of bursts in 2002. In October 2002 HETE detected a gamma-ray burst that lasted for 100 seconds. This discovery led to exceedingly detailed observations of a gamma-ray burst. HETE has now detected several bursts for which optical afterglows have been detected and followed.