Asuka

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 20 Feb 1993, 02:20 am UTC

Rocket: Mu-3S-II (Mu)

Provider: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

Mission Description

The objective of the ASCA (Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astronomy) (or Astro D) mission was to perform spectroscopic X-Ray astronomy in the wavelength band 1--12 keV. with particular emphasis on spectroscopy of the iron K band.