Air-launched OrbView-2 (SeaStar), carrying the SeaWiFS ocean-color imaging instrument that supplied over a decade of data on global ocean biology and chlorophyll concentrations, far exceeding its five-year design life.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 309 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 1 August 1997, 20:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1997-037
- Launches in 1997
- 39th of 89
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