Gamma

retired

Гамма

Science ExplorationLEOCOSPAR 1990-058ALaunched 7/11/1990

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Mission & Launch

Launch Mission: Gamma Mission
Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2
Launch Date: 7/11/1990
Last Contact: 2/28/1992

Orbit & Mass

Orbit Class: LEO
Altitude: 420.5 km
Inclination: 51.62 deg
Dry Mass: 7,000 kg
Total Mass: 7,320 kg

Payload Classification

Mission Type: Science Exploration
Payload Category: AST
Payload Class: C

Organizations

Operator: NPO Energomash
Manufacturer: NPO Energomash

Registry

COSPAR ID: 1990-058A
UN Registration: ST/SG/SER.E/232

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Mentions

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All verified mentions of this spacecraft in source documents.

Firefly Aerospace's long-term goal is to produce Gamma, a winged reusable spaceplane that would launch a rocket into space, with Gamma not expected to be ready until around 2024 or 2025.

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POLAR-2 involves a consortium of organizations from Switzerland, Poland, Germany and China and will seek to detect gamma-ray burst polarimetry following a first experiment aboard the Tiangong-2 space lab.

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Khrunichev plans five more Proton launches 2019 with the next Proton launch scheduled for 2019-06-21, Moscow time, carrying the Spektr-Roentgen-Gamma telescope.

PlanValue 4.5May 31, 2019First Proton of the year launches Gazprom communications satellite

POLAR, a gamma-ray burst detector carried on Tiangong-2 and developed by an international collaboration including Swiss, Chinese, and Polish institutes, stopped functioning fully on 2017-04-01 due to power failure.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Jun 20, 2018China appears to be preparing to deorbit its Tiangong-2 space lab