Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Solar irradiance. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1999-070; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 21 December 1999, 07:13 UTC
- Launch location
- Vandenberg AFB, California
- Launch vehicle
- Taurus 2110
- Orbit
- Low Earth orbit (Sun-synchronous)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
An Orbital Sciences Minotaur-C rocket launched the Arirang-1 mission on Tuesday, December 21, 1999 at 7:13 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Orbital Sciences
- Vehicle
- Minotaur-C
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1999-070
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Dec 21, 1999, 07:13 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Dec 21 1999
- Pad and location
- LC-576E, Vandenberg SFB
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 14 December 2013
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
ACRIMSAT
Solar irradiance.
- GCAT ID
- S26033
- Manufacturer
- OSC McLean
- Launch mass
- 109 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.7 m long · 0.8 m diameter · 2.2 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from ACRIMSAT.
Verification
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