Uhuru
TelescopeSmall spinning satellite with two sets of X-ray detectors that swept the sky as it turned.
- Launch mass
- 143 kg
- Size
- diameter 0.6 m, span 3.9 m
- Power
- Solar
- Designator
- 1970-107A
Image: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 12 Dec 197010:53:50 UTC
- Destinations
- Low Earth orbit
The first satellite built specifically for X-ray astronomy. Launched from a platform off the coast of Kenya, it produced the first full catalogue of X-ray sources in the sky.
Milestones
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197119721973
Spacecraft
Completed
Mission details from nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.