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BeppoSAX
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 30 Apr 1996, 04:31 am UTC
Rocket: Atlas I (Atlas)
Provider: General Dynamics
Mission
Type: Astrophysics
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
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.