A NASA Columbia Shuttle mission, it was launched on October 22nd, 1992. Amongst the primary goals of the mission was the orbiting of the Laser Geodynamics Satellite (LAGEOS-II). The NASA/ASI LAGEOS-II satellite was released in its elliptical orbit by the ASI IRIS launch system (Italian Research Interim Stage).
Hardware: Iris
Experiments: Lageos-2
WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2022
AstroSamantha will become the first European astronaut in command of the International Space Station MORE...
THURSDAY 21 JULY 2022
First extravehicular activity for Samantha Cristoforetti MORE...
TUESDAY 19 JULY 2022
On Friday 15 July, the first detailed study on this "New Year's Burst" was published in the Astrophysical Journal, using data acquired by the AGILE satellite MORE...
MONDAY 11 JULY 2022
The third release of the Fermi Point Source Catalog (4FGL-DR3) covers 12 years of data taken by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope MORE...
WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2022
The Italian experiments of the Minerva mission were presented MORE...