BeppoSAX
BeppoSAX was the Italian Space Agency's broad-band X-ray astronomy mission, developed with Dutch and ESA participation to observe cosmic X-ray sources, gamma-ray bursts, and their afterglows across a uniquely wide energy range.
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- SAX missionSatellite per Astronomia X missionBeppoSAX mission
- Name
- BeppoSAX
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- BeppoSAX was the Italian Space Agency's broad-band X-ray astronomy mission, developed with Dutch and ESA participation to observe cosmic X-ray sources, gamma-ray bursts, and their afterglows across a uniquely wide energy range.
- Destination
- Approximately 600 km circular near-equatorial low Earth orbit
- End Date
- 2002-04-30
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- BeppoSAX operated from 1996 to 2002 and enabled rapid, precise gamma-ray-burst afterglow localizations while producing more than 1,500 scientific publications.
- Start Date
- 1996-04-30
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- Creation Time
- August 1, 2026 at 10:53:52 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 1, 2026 at 10:53:52 UTC
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