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Falcon 9 Block 5 | COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager)

COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager)

To Be Determined

Launch Details

Date: 31 Aug 2027, 12:00 am UTC

Rocket: Falcon 9 (Falcon)

Provider: SpaceX

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Wide-field gamma-ray telescope designed to study energetic phenomena in the Milky Way and beyond, including the creation and destruction of matter and antimatter and the final stages of the lives of stars. The mission is a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, the University of California, San Diego, the Naval Research Laboratory, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and Northrop Grumman.