MIRAX [INPE]
MIRAX (Monitor e Imageador de Raios-X) was a small-scale x-ray astronomy mission to be launched in 2010/11 which was to use the BeppoSAX flight spare WFC camera, as well as a wide-field hard X-ray detector to be built by UCSD.
MIRAX was to be launched 2006/2007 by a Brazilian VLS-1 rocket, but has been combined with EQUARS to a joint satellite called Lattes.
Nation: | Brazil |
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Type / Application: | Astronomy, X-Ray |
Operator: | INPE |
Contractors: | INPE |
Equipment: | ? |
Configuration: | ? |
Propulsion: | ? |
Power: | 2 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries |
Lifetime: | |
Mass: | ~200 kg |
Orbit: | 600 km equatorial |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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MIRAX | - | cancelled | Al VLS | VLS-1 |