Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
General Dynamics
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Astrophysics
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 04:31:01 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4069 ever
Mission
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.