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This page records Black Brant IX | SISTINE and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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LAUNCH SITEArnhem Space Centre
Mission
The Suborbital Imaging Spectrograph for Transition region Irradiance from Nearby Exoplanet host stars (SISTINE) is a payload from the University of Colorado. Its objective is to study how light from stars affects the atmospheres of the planets around them, including the gases thought to be signs of life. For this flight, it will measure the ultraviolet light output from α Centauri A and B, two stars of the three-star α Centauri system that are the closest stars to our Sun.
- Launch vehicle
- Black Brant IX
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Destination orbit
- Suborbital
- Launch pad
- Suborbital Launch Ramp
- Provider
- Equatorial Launch Australia
The vehicle
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Launch vehicle
Black Brant IX
The Black Brant IX is a Canadian-designed sounding rocket used by the CSA and NASA.
- Height
- 12.2 m
- Diameter
- 0.46 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 3
- First flight
- 1982-03-16
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Arnhem Space Centre
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