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A Broadband Imaging X-ray All-sky Survey or ABRIXAS was a space-based German X-ray telescope. It was launched on 28 April 1999 in a Cosmos launch vehicle from Kapustin Yar Russia into Earth orbit. The orbit had a periapsis of 549.0 kilometres (341.1 mi) an apoapsis of 598.0 kilometres (371.6 mi) an inclination of 48.0° and an eccentricity of 0.00352 giving it a period of 96 minutes.The telescope’s battery was accidentally overcharged and destroyed three days after the mission started.
