Key facts
- Names
- Explorer 66, COBE
- Mission type
- Cosmic microwave background Astronomy
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 1989-089A
- Website
- lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe
- Mission duration
- 6 months (planned), 4 years, 1 month and 4 days (achieved)
- Spacecraft
- Explorer LXVI
- Spacecraft type
- Cosmic Background Explorer
- Bus
- COBE
- Manufacturer
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Launch mass
- 2,206 kg (4,863 lb)
- Dry mass
- 1,408 kg (3,104 lb)
- Dimensions
- 5.49 × 2.44 m (18.0 × 8.0 ft)
- Power
- 750 watts
- Launch date
- 18 November 1989, 14:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 5920-8 (Delta 189)
- Launch site
- Vandenberg , SLC-2W
- Contractor
- Douglas Aircraft Company
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Explorers Program
- Operator
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Followed by
- Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
- Follows
- Charge Composition Explorer
- Official website
- lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe
- Image
- Cobe.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- start point
- Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2
- Commons category
- COBE
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1989-11-18
- space launch vehicle
- Delta 5000
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