# High Energy Transient Explorer

A 3D model from NASA/Christopher R. Meaney, [NASA](https://science.nasa.gov/3d-resources/high-energy-transient-explorer/).

- Licence: [Not subject to copyright in the United States (NASA)](https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/)
- Credit: NASA/Christopher R. Meaney
- Model (GLB): [https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/cds/3d/resources/model/high-energy-transient-explorer/High%20Energy%20Transient%20Explorer.glb](https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/cds/3d/resources/model/high-energy-transient-explorer/High%20Energy%20Transient%20Explorer.glb)
- Not offered in your room: its source does not state the model's scale, so it could not be shown at its true size.

HETE-2, also known as the High Energy Transient Explorer was an international collaboration between USA, Japan, France, and Italy, headed by the Center for Space Research at MIT. It was successfully launched with a Pegasus launcher, on October 9 2000 from the Kwajalein missile range facility, an atoll in the Pacific oceon. HETE-2 was designed \[…\]