Air-launched Pegasus XL deployed the TSX-5 (P95-2) satellite carrying the UK/US STRV-2 experiment, which imaged aircraft in infrared and downlinked data via laser crosslink for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and UK Ministry of Defence.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 250 kg
- Flight
- 15th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 7 June 2000, 13:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2000-030
- Launches in 2000
- 32nd of 85
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