Falcon 9 Block 5 | COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager)

Provider: SpaceX

Vehicle: Falcon 9

Launch Date:

Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40

Target Orbit: LEO

Orbital Compute Tier: Insufficient data

Wide-field gamma-ray telescope designed to study energetic phenomena in the Milky Way and beyond, including the creation and destruction of matter and antimatter and the final stages of the lives of stars. The mission is a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, the University of California, San Diego, the Naval Research Laboratory, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and Northrop Grumman.

Mission intelligence

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