Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS)

An air-launched Pegasus rocket, dropped from a NASA NB-52 off Point Arguello, California, placed the ALEXIS satellite (Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors) into orbit for Los Alamos National Laboratory to survey the sky in soft X-rays.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

131 kg

Flight

3rd

of 4 Pegasus flights

Date and time

25 April 1993, 13:56 UTC

Rocket

Pegasus

Builder

OSC

Launch site

Edwards Air Force Base, Air launch to orbit

Payload

Unknown

International designator

1993-026

Launches in 1993

26th of 83

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