RHESSI

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

20:58:00

Tuesday February 5, 2002

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Mission Details

Wiki

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.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

293 kilograms

Rocket

Active

Pegasus XL

Active Since 1994

Agency

Northrop

Price

$40.00 million

Rocket

Height: 17.6m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 443 kg

Liftoff Thrust

561 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 1.15m

Height: 2.13m

Stages

4

Launch Site

Stargazer

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

92 days 15 hours

Stargazer

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

92 days 15 hours

Stats

Pegasus

31st

Mission

1st

Mission of 2002

2002

4th

Orbital launch attempt