Related Sites

UC Berkeley RHESSI site - hardware, ground-system, and pre-launch information

HESPE - High Energy Solar Physics Data in Europe - Archive of RHESSI images, spectra, spectrograms and lightcurves.

Max Millennium - Program for coordinating solar flare research

Northrop Grumman (formerly Orbital Sciences) - they built the Pegasus launch vehicle

  • RHESSI Launched February 5, 2002 by a Pegasus XL rocket which was released from a L-1011 aircraft flying out of the Cape Canaveral AFS
  • Pegasus Rocket

General Dynamics  (formerly Spectrum Astro) - they built the spacecraft

RHESSI Press Kit - released in January 2002 prior to launch

 

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