Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
IR survey. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1996-024; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 24 April 1996, 12:27:40 UTC
- Launch location
- Vandenberg AFB, California
- Launch vehicle
- Delta 7920-10
- Orbit
- Low Earth orbit (Sun-synchronous)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Boeing Delta II rocket launched the MSX mission on Wednesday, April 24, 1996 at 12:27 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Boeing
- Vehicle
- Delta II
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1996-024
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Apr 24, 1996, 12:27 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Apr 24 1996
- Pad and location
- SLC-2W, Vandenberg SFB
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 2 June 2008
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
MSX
IR survey.
- GCAT ID
- S23851
- Manufacturer
- JHU-Applied Physics Lab
- Launch mass
- 2,782 kg
- Dimensions
- 5.1 m long · 1.8 m diameter · 5.1 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
0 images from MSX.
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