Third flight of Orbital Sciences' air-launched Pegasus XL, deployed the US Air Force's REX-2 satellite to study ionospheric radio propagation, marking REX-2's first successful flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 110 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 9 March 1996, 01:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1996-014
- Launches in 1996
- 15th of 77
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