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  Colspan "2" style="font-size:smaller text-align:center" Artist's Illustration of CGRO in orbit (credit: NASA )
  style "width:50%"'''Organization''' NASA
  '''Launch Date''' "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/5_April" class="copylinks">5 April 1991
  '''Deorbit Date''' "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/4_June" class="copylinks">4 June 2000
  ! Colspan "2" style="background: #87CEEB text-align:center" Physical Characteristics
  ! Colspan "2" style="background: #87CEEB text-align:center" Instruments
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  ''' "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Burst_and_Transient_Source_Experiment" class="copylinks">BATSE '''all-sky monitor
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  ''' "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Oriented_Scintillation_Spectrometer_Experiment" class="copylinks">OSSE '''pointed detectors
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  ''' "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Imaging_Compton_Telescope" class="copylinks">COMPTEL '''imaging telescope
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  ''' "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Energetic_Gamma_Ray_Experiment_Telescope" class="copylinks">EGRET '''wide field telescope