An air-launched Pegasus XL, released from an L-1011 carrier aircraft out of Vandenberg, deployed Canada's SCISAT-1 atmospheric research satellite, carrying the ACE-FTS spectrometer and MAESTRO instrument to study ozone depletion and the chemistry of Earth's upper atmosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 150 kg
- Flight
- 20th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 13 August 2003, 02:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2003-036
- Launches in 2003
- 36th of 63
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