Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events (FORTE)

Launched the US Department of Energy's FORTE (Fast On-orbit Recording of Transient Events) satellite, built by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories to study lightning and detect nuclear-test-related radio and optical signals.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

212 kg

Flight

9th

of 31 Pegasus XL flights

Date and time

29 August 1997, 15:02 UTC

Rocket

Pegasus XL

Builder

OSC

Launch site

Space Launch Complex 10E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Payload

Unknown

International designator

1997-047

Launches in 1997

49th of 89

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