Broadband Advanced Technologies Satellite (BATSAT/Teledesic T1) & Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE)

A Pegasus XL air-launched from an L-1011 over the Pacific carried the Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) into orbit, a University of Colorado student-built satellite and the first of NASA's Student Explorer Demonstration Initiative (STEDI) missions.

Outcome

Success

Payload to orbit

333 kg

Flight

11th

of 31 Pegasus XL flights

Date and time

26 February 1998, 07:07 UTC

Rocket

Pegasus XL

Builder

OSC

Launch site

Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit

Payload

Unknown

International designator

1998-012

Launches in 1998

13th of 82

See it in orbit

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