1986–2000: Stations, Global Partnerships and Flagship Observatories
COBE
Measured the cosmic microwave background spectrum and anisotropy.
Era 3 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 18 Nov 1989
- Lead / partner
- United States
- Target
- Earth orbit
- Category
- Cosmology
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- Delta 5920-8
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Geocentric orbit
- Duration
- 6 months (planned) (achieved)
Why it happened
COBE flew during 1986–2000: Stations, Global Partnerships and Flagship Observatories, as part of United States's work toward earth orbit. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Measured the cosmic microwave background spectrum and anisotropy.
Results
Measured the cosmic microwave background spectrum and anisotropy.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Wikimedia Commons, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
