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DUVE
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Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Diffuse UV background. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1992-044; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 24 July 1992, 14:26:00 UTC
- Launch location
- Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida
- Launch vehicle
- Delta 6925
- Orbit
- Low Earth orbit (inclined)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Boeing Delta II rocket launched the Geotail mission on Friday, July 24, 1992 at 2:26 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Boeing
- Vehicle
- Delta II
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1992-044
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Jul 24, 1992, 14:26 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Jul 24 1992
- Pad and location
- SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral SFS
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 16 March 1993
Historical mission record
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Hardware
Spacecraft
DUVE
Diffuse UV background.
- GCAT ID
- A05189
- Manufacturer
- University of California Berkeley
- Launch mass
- 50 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.2 m long · 0.2 m diameter · 0.4 m span
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