AGILE
| AGILE | |
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| Type: | Research satellite |
| Country: |
 Italy
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| Operator: | ASI |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2007-013A |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 325 kg |
| Begin: | April 23, 2007, 10:00 UTC |
| Starting place: | SHAR SLP |
| Launcher: | PSLV-CA C-8 |
| Status: | active |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 95.4 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 2.5 ° |
| Apogee height : | 524 km |
| Perigee height : | 553 km |
AGILE ( Italian A stro-rivelatore G amma a I mmagini LE ggero) is a small satellite of the Italian space agency ASI based on the Mita platform , which the company COSMOS launched with an Indian PSLV launcher on April 23, 2007 together with AAM on a 550 km high equatorial orbit shot. Carlo Gavazzi Space built the satellite .
The payload consists of an imaging -Weitwinkel- 60 ° detector for hard gamma radiation , which the All of GRBs to scan and other high-energy radiation sources. AGILE sends the data to the ground using a Rubin module via the Orbcomm system.
The scientific director is Marco Tavani .
Web links
Commons : AGILE - collection of images, videos and audio files
- AGILE homepage (English)