IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer), a NASA satellite air-launched from the Stargazer L-1011 over Kwajalein Atoll into a highly eccentric orbit to image where the solar wind meets interstellar space using energetic neutral atoms.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 117 kg
- Flight
- 25th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 19 October 2008, 17:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Kwajalein Atoll, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2008-051
- Launches in 2008
- 53rd of 69
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: IBEX
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