Northrop Grumman's air-launched Pegasus XL dropped from the L-1011 Stargazer over the Atlantic and placed NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) into a 575 km, 27-degree orbit to study how Earth's weather and space weather interact in the ionosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 288 kg
- Flight
- 29th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 11 October 2019, 02:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2019-068
- Launches in 2019
- 73rd of 102
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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