Pegasus XL, air-launched from Point Arguello, deployed MSTI-3 (Miniature Sensor Technology Integration), a US missile-defense technology demonstrator carrying multispectral infrared sensors to track missile plumes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 295 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 2 July 1996, 07:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1996-037
- Launches in 1996
- 41st of 77
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