Orbital Sciences' air-launched Pegasus, dropped from a NASA B-52 out of Edwards Air Force Base, placed the Advanced Photovoltaic and Electronics Experiments (APEX) satellite into a highly elliptical orbit to study radiation and plasma effects on solar arrays and electronics.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 383 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 4 Pegasus flights
- Date and time
- 3 August 1994, 14:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Edwards Air Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1994-046
- Launches in 1994
- 49th of 93
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