NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

RHESSI

Launch Time
Tue Feb 05, 2002 20:58 UTC

Rocket

Pegasus XL
Northrop
Status: Active
Price: $40.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 561 kN
Payload to LEO: 443 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 17.6 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.15 m
Fairing Height: 2.13 m

Mission Details

RHESSI

Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI, originally High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager or HESSI) is a NASA solar flare observatory. Its primary mission is to explore the physics of particle acceleration and energy release in solar flares.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 293.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Stargazer, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

2002

4th orbital launch attempt

Pegasus

31st mission
1st mission of 2002
26th successful mission
17th consecutive successful mission