Orbital Sciences' air-launched Pegasus XL deployed STEP-4 (Space Test Experiments Platform 4), a U.S. Air Force technology-demonstration satellite, from the Stargazer L-1011 over Wallops Island. The satellite's solar arrays failed to deploy after separation, leaving it unable to operate.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 403 kg
- Flight
- 10th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 22 October 1997, 13:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Wallops Flight Facility, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1997-063
- Launches in 1997
- 65th of 89
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