Orbital Sciences' air-launched Pegasus XL deployed OrbView-3, a commercial Earth-imaging satellite capable of one-meter resolution photography, into low Earth orbit for the ORBIMAGE division of Orbital Sciences.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 304 kg
- Flight
- 19th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 26 June 2003, 18:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2003-030
- Launches in 2003
- 30th of 63
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