An Atlas I launched the Italian Space Agency's BeppoSAX X-ray astronomy satellite into a low-inclination low Earth orbit, where it went on to make key contributions including the first detection of a gamma-ray burst afterglow.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 30 April 1996, 04:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1996-027
- Launches in 1996
- 28th of 77
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