An air-launched Pegasus XL, dropped from an L-1011 aircraft over the Pacific, carried NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) into orbit to image the Sun's transition region and corona in extreme ultraviolet light.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 250 kg
- Flight
- 12th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 2 April 1998, 02:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1998-020
- Launches in 1998
- 21st of 82
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