BeppoSAX

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Astrophysics

Low Earth Orbit Launch Complex 36B Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

SAX (Satellite Astronomia Raggio-X) is the X-Ray Astronomy Satellite selected by the Italian National Space Plan for inclusion in the Science Plan. The objective of the mission is to perform spectroscopic and time variability studies of celestial X-ray sources in the energy band from 1 to 200 keV. including an all-sky monitoring investigation of transients in the 2-30 keV.energy range.

Atlas I

Family:
Configuration: I

The Atlas I was a US expendable launch system manufactured by General Dynamics in the 1990s to launch a variety of satellites.

Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    43.9 m
  • Diameter
    3.05 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    3.05 m
  • Launch Mass
    164.0 T
  • Thrust
    1939.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Atlas I
  • Family
  • Variant
    I
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Atlas I
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    5900.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

General Dynamics

General Dynamics

(GD)

Successes: 9 Failures: 2 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

INFO WIKI

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Launch Complex 36B


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Atlas V 551
Success
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Project Kuiper (KA-02)
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Falcon 9
Success
2 weeks, 6 days ago
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Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 3
Success
3 weeks, 1 day ago
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Angara A5/Briz-M
Success
3 weeks, 3 days ago
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