Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)

A Pegasus XL, air-launched from an L-1011 carrier aircraft off Cape Canaveral, deployed NASA's HESSI solar observatory (later renamed RHESSI), which used a rotating modulation collimator to image solar flares in hard X-rays and gamma rays.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

304 kg

Flight

16th

of 31 Pegasus XL flights

Date and time

5 February 2002, 20:58 UTC

Rocket

Pegasus XL

Builder

OSC

Launch site

Cape Canaveral, Air launch to orbit

Payload

Unknown

International designator

2002-004

Launches in 2002

4th of 65

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