Deployed NASA's AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) spacecraft from Vandenberg to a 600 km orbit to study polar mesospheric clouds and why they have grown brighter and more widespread at lower latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 192 kg
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 25 April 2007, 20:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2007-015
- Launches in 2007
- 17th of 68
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