Pegasus XL air-launched Spain's first satellite, Minisat-01, alongside Celestis' Founders Flight, a memorial spaceflight carrying cremated remains of Gene Roddenberry, Timothy Leary and others, released over the Canary Islands.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 210 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 21 April 1997, 11:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Gran Canaria, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1997-018
- Launches in 1997
- 19th of 89
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Object pages on Space Atlas: Celestis 01
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