Orbital Sciences' Pegasus XL, air-launched from the L-1011 Stargazer aircraft off Vandenberg, deployed NASA's IRIS solar observatory into a sun-synchronous orbit to study how energy and plasma move through the sun's lower atmosphere into the corona.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 183 kg
- Flight
- 27th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 28 June 2013, 02:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 2013-033
- Launches in 2013
- 34th of 81
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