Saturday, November 20, 1999

Abrixas

 1999-022A


Mass 470 kg; 2.5 x 1.8 x 1.1 m in size. DLR astronomy satellite led by MPE (Garching) and AIP (Potsdam), with IAAT (Tubingen). Contractor is OHB-System GmbH, Bremen (Orbital-und Hydrotechnologie Bremen). Consists of telescope module, bus module and solar panels. Abrixas (A Broad Band Imaging X-ray All Sky Survey) does a 0.5-10 keV hard X-ray all sky survey, complementing the ROSAT soft all sky survey. Launch in Apr 1999 by Kosmos-3M from GTsP-4. Control is from DLR/GSOC.


ABRIXAS 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1999 Apr 28  2030:00  Launch by Kosmos-3M  GTsP-4 LC107 
 2032:10  T+2:10 Stage 2 burn, 70km 
 2032:11  T+2:11 stage 1 sep 
 2032:15  T+2:15 St2 full thrust, 156 kN 
 2032:20  T+2:20 Fairing 
 2037:29  T+7:29 St2 low thrust, 6 kN 
 2037:39  T+7:39 St 2 MECO 
 2058:47  T+28:47 St 2 low thrust 
 2058:50  T+28:50 Stage 2 restart main thrust 
 2058:52  T+28:52 St 2 low thrust 
 2059:02  T+29:02 Stage 2 MECO 
 2059:23  T+29:23 Stage 2 sep  544 x 603 x 48.4 
 2059:25  T+29:25 Megsat sep from St2 
1999 Apr 28  2330 Battery failed 
1999 May 1   end of ops

Payload:

  • X-ray optics, 1.6m focal length Wolter I (Zeiss) with 7 mirror modules each with 27 shells, 1' resolution.

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