LAUNCH CENTER

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Success
Fri Jun 28 2013
Orbital Sciences Corporation

Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

Launch Successful
LAUNCH PREVIEW

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(2:27 AM UTC)

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(2:27 AM UTC)

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(2:27 AM UTC)

RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Pegasus XL

Description:

The Pegasus is an air-launched rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (now part of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems). Capable of carrying small payloads of up to 443 kilograms (977 lb) into low Earth orbit, the vehicle consists of three solid propellant stages and an optional monopropellant fourth stage. Pegasus is released from its carrier aircraft at approximately 40,000 ft (12,000 m), and its first stage has a wing and a tail to provide lift and attitude control while in the atmosphere.

Pegasus XL rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Heliophysics
  • The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun's lower atmosphere.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Air launch to orbit

Pad

Vandenberg Space Force Base