Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Galaxy Evolution Explorer
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Explorer-83SMEX-7
- Spaceflight.image
- GALEX spacecraft model.png
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- GALEX spacecraft
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Ultraviolet astronomy
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASAJPL (2003-2012)Caltech (2012-2013)
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2003-017A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 27783
- Spaceflight.website
- https://www.galex.caltech.edu/
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 29 months (planned) (achieved)
- Spaceflight.spacecraft
- Explorer LXXXIII
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_type
- Galaxy Evolution Explorer
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- Orbview 4
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Spaceflight.power
- 290 watts
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 28 April 2003, 11:59:57 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Pegasus XL (F33)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- artificial satellite of the Earth
- Part of
- Small Explorer program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere
- Mass
- 280
- Orbital period
- 98.4855
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Official website
- www.galex.caltech.edu
- Image
- Galex.jpg
- Height
- 2.7
- Length
- 2
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- mean anomaly
- 144.9927
- argument of periapsis
- 215.0418
- longitude of ascending node
- 285.5367
- Commons category
- GALEX
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2003-04-28
- space launch vehicle
- Pegasus
- service retirement
- 2013-06-28
- nominal power output
- 290
- launch contractor
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 7065.55
- orbital inclination
- 28.4855
- periapsis
- 648.261
- apoapsis
- 689.478
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.0003692
- start point
- Stargazer
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