flown missionSuccess
Pegasus XL | Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON)
Northrop Grumman Space SystemsCape Canaveral — Air launch to orbit
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON)
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Weather probability
- 70% go
Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) is a NASA mission to study Earth's thermosphere and ionosphere and the connection between space weather and weather on our planet. Mission is planned to last for two years.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Family
- Pegasus
- Provider
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Cape Canaveral
- Location
- Air launch to orbit
- Country
- ???
- Coordinates
- 28.4556, -80.5278
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