Miniature Sensor Technology Integration 3 (MSTI-3)

An air-launched Pegasus Hybrid released from an OSC L-1011 carrier aircraft placed the U.S. Air Force's Miniature Sensor Technology Integration satellite (MSTI-3) into a roughly 425 km orbit to test missile-plume sensing technology.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

211 kg

Flight

2nd

of 4 Pegasus Hybrid flights

Date and time

17 May 1996, 02:44 UTC

Rocket

Pegasus Hybrid

Builder

OSC

Launch site

Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit

Payload

Unknown

International designator

1996-031

Launches in 1996

33rd of 77

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