Mission type | X-ray astronomy[1] |
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Operator | Russian Space Research Institute, German Aerospace Center |
COSPAR ID | 2019-040A |
SATCAT no. | 44432 |
Website | srg.iki.rssi.ru |
Mission duration | Planned: 6.5 years[1] Elapsed: 5 years, 4 months, 9 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Bus | Navigator[2] |
Manufacturer | NPO Lavochkin, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics |
Launch mass | 2,712 kg (5,979 lb)[1] |
Payload mass | 1,210 kg (2,670 lb)[1] |
Power | 1.8 kW |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 13 July 2019, 12:31UTC[1][3] |
Rocket | Proton-M[1] |
Launch site | Baikonur Site 81/24 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Sun–Earth L2 |
Regime | Halo orbit |
Main telescope | |
Type | eROSITA: Wolter |
Wavelengths | X-ray |
Instruments | |
eROSITA, ART-XC | |
Spektr program |
Spektr-RG (Russian: Спектр-РГ, Spectrum + Röntgen + Gamma; also called Spectrum-X-Gamma, SRG, SXG) is a Russian–German high-energy astrophysics space observatory which was launched on 13 July 2019.[4] It follows on from the Spektr-R satellite telescope launched in 2011.[5]