Launched ROSAT, the German-led (with US and UK participation) X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet observatory, from Cape Canaveral into a 550 km orbit. It conducted the first all-sky X-ray survey with imaging optics, cataloguing over 100,000 sources.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.4 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Delta II 6920-10 flights
- Date and time
- 1 June 1990, 21:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 6920-10
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1990-049
- Launches in 1990
- 51st of 121
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