CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- ALEXIS
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Full Name
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Array of Low-Energy X-Ray Imaging Sensors
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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LANL
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Launch Date
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25 Apr 1993
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Mission Links
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EOL Date
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29 Apr 2005
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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International Designator
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Orbit Type
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Highly elliptical
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Orbit Period
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Orbit Sense
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N/A
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Orbit Inclination
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70 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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844 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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ALEXIS is a sophisticated US microsatellite technology demonstration mission of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, funded by DOE (Department of Energy) and built by Comtech AA (AeroAstro Inc.), Ashburn, VA. Sandia National Laboratory, UCB/SSL (UC Berkeley/Space Sciences Laboratory) are partners of LANL in the mission.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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