Proton-M/Blok DM-03 launched Russia's Spektr-RG X-ray observatory, carrying the German eROSITA and Russian ART-XC telescopes, toward the Sun-Earth L2 point to conduct an all-sky X-ray survey of the universe.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- L2
- Sun-Earth L2
- Payload to orbit
- 3.6 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 8 Proton-M Blok DM-03 flights
- Date and time
- 13 July 2019, 12:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Blok DM-03
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2019-040
- Launches in 2019
- 45th of 102
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