Pegasus XL, air-launched from an L-1011 off Vandenberg, deployed NASA's FAST (Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer), the second Small Explorer mission, to study particle acceleration processes in the aurora.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 162 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 21 August 1996, 09:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1996-049
- Launches in 1996
- 53rd of 77
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