Air-launched from the L-1011 Stargazer aircraft over Kwajalein Atoll, the Pegasus XL deployed Katalyst Space's LINK robotic servicing spacecraft, built under a NASA contract to rendezvous with and reboost the decaying Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 430 kg
- Flight
- 31st
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 3 July 2026, 08:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Kwajalein Atoll, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Mission Extension
- International designator
- 2026-152
- Launches in 2026
- 159th of 243
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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