Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS)

An air-launched Pegasus XL, dropped from the Stargazer carrier aircraft near Kwajalein, orbited the U.S. Air Force's C/NOFS satellite to study equatorial ionospheric scintillation that can disrupt GPS and communications signals.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

384 kg

Flight

24th

of 31 Pegasus XL flights

Date and time

16 April 2008, 17:02 UTC

Rocket

Pegasus XL

Builder

OSC

Launch site

Kwajalein Atoll, Air launch to orbit

Payload

Unknown

International designator

2008-017

Launches in 2008

17th of 69

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