Tuesday, December 19, 2000

Granat

 1989-096A


The Granat (`Garnet') satellite (article 1AS) was launched in Dec 1989 into a highly elliptical Earth orbit by a Proton-K with a Blok-D-M (11S824M) upper stage. Granat was dedicated to high energy astrophysics; its flagship instrument was the French-built SIGMA telescope which used a coded mask to make images in the hard X-ray band above 30 keV.  SIGMA/Granat discovered several hard X-ray sources near the Galactic Center.


Granat 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1989 Dec 1  2020:57  Launch by Proton-K  KB 
  Stage 3 ignition  
 2030  Stage 3 cutoff 
 2030  Stage 3 sep 
 2035?  Blok D burn 1  
 2038?  Blok D MECO, LEO  107.56 224 x 2003 x 51.5 
 2124? Blok-D-M ignition 2 
 2124? SOZ sep 
 2131  MECO-2 
 2131:22 Blok-D-M sep  5928.031 1764 x 202481 x 51.9 
   5903.648 1956 x 201693 x 52.12 
1989 Dec 2  1608? Pass EL1:4 

1991 Sep 18  

  5894.01 20804 x 182610 x 81.97 
1994 Sep   Begin sky survey 
1998 Nov 27  0602 end of ops 5901.68 6128 x 197474 x 65.51 
1999 May 25   reentered? 

Payload:

  • SIGMA SIGMA gamma ray telescope 30 keV-2 MeV Systeme d'Imagerie Gamma a masque aleatoire (CNES)

  • Konus GRB monitor 20 keV-2MeV

  • Podsolnukh (Sov/Bulg.) 2-25 keV rotating platform, triggered by Konus

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