Proton-K/17S40 launched ESA's INTEGRAL gamma-ray observatory from Baikonur into a highly eccentric orbit, enabling long uninterrupted observation periods for studying gamma-ray bursts, black holes and other high-energy phenomena.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.8 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 6 Proton-K/17S40 flights
- Date and time
- 17 October 2002, 04:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/17S40
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2002-048
- Launches in 2002
- 50th of 65
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