Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Soft X-ray survey. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1990-049; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 1 June 1990, 21:48:00 UTC
- Launch location
- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Eastern Test Range
- Launch vehicle
- Delta 6920-10
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Boeing Delta II rocket launched the ROSAT mission on Friday, June 1, 1990 at 9:48 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Boeing
- Vehicle
- Delta II
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1990-049
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Jun 1, 1990, 21:48 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Jun 01 1990
- Pad and location
- SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral SFS
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · January 1999
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
ROSAT
Soft X-ray survey.
- GCAT ID
- S20638
- Manufacturer
- Deutsche Aerospace AG (DASA)-Friedrichsafen (Dornier GmBH)
- Launch mass
- 2,426 kg
- Dimensions
- 4.5 m long · 2.2 m diameter · 8.9 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
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