Long March 11 | GECAM
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 11 · Mobile Launcher Pad, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation's 302nd launch · 32nd this year · humanity's 6,026th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Dec 9, 20:05 – Dec 9, 20:31 UTC
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GECAM
GECAM (Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor) is a constellation of two small X-ray and gamma-ray all-sky observatories to search for gamma-ray counterparts to gravitational wave events. Each satellite features a dome-shaped array of 25 Gamma-ray detectors (GRD) and 8 Charged particle detectors (CPD). Together the satellites will provide a FOV of 100% all-sky. The sensitivity of the detectors is ~2E-8 erg/cm2/s. They will provide a localization of ~1°. The detectors are sensible in the energy band from 6 keV to 5 MeV. Besides detecting the radiation from gravitatinal wave events, the satellites will also be contributing in detectiong Ultra-long GRBs, X-ray Flashes, X-ray-rich GRBs, Magnetars and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes.
Astrophysics · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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Success according to CASC
spacevogel · 12/9/2020 · source
Pad — Mobile Launcher Pad
8 launches from this pad · 242 from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
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