launched fromRussia

INTEGRAL

Name: INTEGRAL
Start: 2002-10-17T04:41:00Z
Location: Baikonur

Success

OCT 17200204:41:00 UTC

INTEGRAL was ESA's gamma-ray observatory, designed to observe the most energetic phenomena in the universe and the most sensitive instrument of its kind in the MeV range. It was placed in a highly elliptical three-day orbit reaching some 150,000 km, carrying it well above Earth's radiation belts to keep background interference low during its long observing windows.

LIFTOFF

OCT 17 2002

04:41:00 UTC

Success

launched fromPad 81/23Baikonur

aboardProton K/Blok DM-2intoHigh Earth

Payload

INTEGRAL

Astrophysics