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A launch of the Black Brant 8 Microcalorimeter at the turn of the century as a part of the joint undertaking by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center known as the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC) project. Credit: Dan McCammon at Wisconsin and by Andrew Szymkowiak and Scott Porter at Goddard.