General Dynamics Atlas I BeppoSAX

Name: General Dynamics Atlas I BeppoSAX
Start: 1996-04-30T04:31:01.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 36B

Atlas I

Status

Success

Date

30 APR 1996

04:31

Launch Provider

General Dynamics

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 36B

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Overview

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.

Rocket

Atlas I

Mission Type

Astrophysics

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

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

Height

43.9 m

Diameter

3.05 m

Launch Mass

164 T

Thrust

1,939 kN