Air-launched Pegasus XL deployed the Space Force's Odyssey satellite for the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) demonstration, a space-domain-awareness spacecraft built and launched within about a year to prove rapid-response launch capability.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 250 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 30th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 13 June 2021, 08:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2021-051
- Launches in 2021
- 54th of 146
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