Tuesday, March 10, 1992

Gamma

 1990-058A


IKI's Gamma (or Gamma 1) spacecraft was built around the Progress bus and built by NPO Energiya's ZEM factory. The satellite carried a spark chamber gamma ray telescope, but it reportedly failed and the only scientific results were from secondary X-ray telescopes. The satellite was placed in a 400 km orbit in Jul 1990 and deorbited in Feb 1992. The mission was a joint project between the USSR, Poland, and France.


Gamma 1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1990 Jul 11  1000:00 Launch by Soyuz from Baikonur 
 1005  Blok-I burn 
 1009  Blok-I sep 
 0936   88.52 185 x 216 x 51.6 
 1912   90.59 182 x 423 x 51.6 
1990 Jul 12  1648   92.04 321 x 428 x 51.6 
1990 Jul 13  1200   93.11 417 x 436 x 51.6 
1990 Jul 15  1648   93.07 415 x 433 x 51.62 
1990 Jul   Gamma 1 main telescope fails 
1990 Aug 8    93.00 411 x 430 x 51.6 
1990 Sep 23    92.83 404 x 421 x 51.6 
1990 Sep 24   
92.99 420 x 421 x 51.6 
1991 Mar 4    92.12 377 x 379 x 51.6 
1991 Mar 7   
92.98 420 x 420 x 51.6 
1991 Oct 9    91.41 340 x 346 x 51.6 
1991 Oct 15   
92.27 385 x 386 x 51.6 
1992 Jan 5    91.36 339 x 342 x 51.6 
1992 Feb 20  89.79 261 x 267 x 51.6 
1992 Feb 28   
 0830?  Possible deorbit 
 0950? Possible deorbit 60 m/s? 
 1030? Entry? over Pacific 

Payload:

  • Gamma 1 telescope 50MeV-5GeV gamma rays spark chamber + SKAT coded mask

  • Pulsar-X2 X-ray telescope (Spectre 2) (IKI/CESR-CNES/)

  • Disk gamma telescope (FTI Ioffe/)

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