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IXPE had been planned to be launched by a Pegasus XL rocket, and had been designed so as to fit within the Pegasus XL rocket constraints. With the IXPE launch removed from the Pegasus XL rocket, there are currently (as of 12 October 2019, after the launch of ICON) no space launch missions announced for the Pegasus XL rocket.
The launch was originally scheduled for June 2017 but was scrubbed when an anomalous piece of vehicle data was observed during a ferry flight. The data was related to the rudder position of the Pegasus XL rocket and was observed during a routine in-flight vehicle health check. [12]
Launch of CYGNSS on a Pegasus-XL. The CYGNSS mission was launched on December 15, 2016, at 13:37:21 UTC from a single Pegasus XL air-launched rocket. The rocket was deployed from a customized Lockheed L-1011 aircraft, Orbital ATK 's Stargazer, from a position 201 kilometers (125 mi) off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
ICON was originally scheduled to launch in June 2017 and was repeatedly delayed because of problems with its Pegasus XL launch vehicle. It was next due to launch on 26 October 2018 but the launch was rescheduled to 7 November 2018, and postponed again just 28 minutes before launch. [12] ICON was successfully launched on 11 October 2019, at 02: ...
Pegasus XL: Reagan Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll: 2009 [19] 2009.02.06 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-N Prime (NOAA-N Prime) Delta II 7320-10C Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2 West (VAFB SLC-2W) 1 of 19 for $1200 [16] 2009.02.24 Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) [launch failure] Taurus XL: Vandenberg AFB Launch Complex 576 ...
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company's launch site in West Texas on March 31, 2022. The mission carried five paying passengers and Gary Lai, New Shepard's chief architect ...
Northrop Grumman's L-1011-100 "Stargazer" preparing for a flight, with the fuselage lifted to make the room for mounting Pegasus XL rocket. In the early 1990s, Orbital Sciences began to use a converted L-1011-100 named Stargazer to launch Pegasus rockets into orbit around Earth. This venture effectively rendered the small Scout rocket obsolete.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company has blasted its first rocket into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk's SpaceX. The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space ...