INTEGRAL's Vital Statistics
| Mission aims and objectives |
To locate, observe and identify sources of high-energy radiation, such as, black holes, neutron stars and supernova explosions. Images and performs spectroscopy of gamma-ray sources, and at the same time monitors these sources at X-ray and visible wavelengths. |
| Launch date, vehicle, location | Launched 17 October 2002, on a Russian Proton rocket, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan |
| Mass at launch (total) | about 4000kg |
| Mass of payload | about 2000 kg |
| Mass of fuel (at launch) |
about 540 kg |
| Height of spacecraft | 5 m |
| Diameter of spacecraft | about 3.7 m |
| Height of service module | about 1.2 m |
| Length and width of Solar Arrays | Two deployable wings, each with three 1.8m (w) × 1.9m (h) rigid panels. Total span of the deployed array is 16 metres |
| Orbit parameters |
Highly elliptical 72-hour orbit, with an apogee of about 150 000 km and a perigee of about ten thousand km. |
Last Update: 1 September 2019