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Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

Orbital Sciences CorporationVandenberg Space Force Base — Air launch to orbit

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

mission

Name
Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
Type
Heliophysics
Target orbit
Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

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.

schedule

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vehicle & provider

Rocket
Pegasus XL
Family
Pegasus
Provider
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Type
Commercial
Country
USA

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launch site

Pad
Vandenberg Space Force Base
Location
Air launch to orbit
Country
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