AGILE
AGILE was the Italian Space Agency's high-energy astrophysics mission, designed for rapid gamma-ray and hard-X-ray observations of cosmic transients, compact objects, and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes.
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- Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero missionAGILE mission
- Name
- AGILE
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- AGILE was the Italian Space Agency's high-energy astrophysics mission, designed for rapid gamma-ray and hard-X-ray observations of cosmic transients, compact objects, and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes.
- Destination
- 550 km circular near-equatorial low Earth orbit at 2.5° inclination for simultaneous hard-X-ray and gamma-ray imaging of the high-energy Universe, including gamma-ray bursts, active galaxies, neutron stars, black holes, and other transient sources
- End Date
- 2024-01-18
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- AGILE operated for nearly 17 years, producing high-energy observations and rapid transient alerts before scientific operations ended on 18 January 2024.
- Programs
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- Start Date
- 2007-04-23
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- Creation Time
- August 1, 2026 at 10:44:08 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 23, 2026 at 02:19:25 UTC
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