An air-launched Pegasus XL, dropped from Orbital ATK's L-1011 Stargazer off Florida's coast, deployed NASA's eight CYGNSS microsatellites to measure ocean surface winds throughout tropical cyclones and hurricanes, after a scrub three days earlier.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 232 kg
- Flight
- 28th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 2016, 13:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2016-078
- Launches in 2016
- 80th of 85
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