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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 first Pegasus launch to use Stargazer was conducted on June 27, 1994, as the maiden flight of the Pegasus-XL. Previous launches used the NASA-operated Boeing B-52 nicknamed "Balls 8," which was also used for four subsequent launches, as the original Pegasus could not be launched from Stargazer due to clearance issues.
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 ...
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list ...
It was launched on 6 December 1998, at 00:57:54 UTC, from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Pegasus XL launch vehicle. [1] The telescope was designed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and integrated by Ball Aerospace, while the spacecraft was built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). [2]
Small missions of the Explorer program offer much flexibility and launch opportunities, and the lessons learned can be applied to the same missions goals, but on a different mission (compare, for instance, Vanguard 1 to Explorer 1). Several years later two new X-ray polarimetry missions won a NASA award to develop X-ray polarimetry missions. [3]
Launch Failure Third stage failure left satellite in useless orbit 21 August 09:47 Pegasus-XL Stargazer, Vandenberg Orbital Sciences FAST: NASA Low Earth Magnetosphere research: In orbit: Operational 29 August 05:22 Molniya-M Plesetsk Site 43/3 MUSAT: CONAE: Molniya Magnetosphere research: 12 November 1999: Successful Interbol 2: Roskosmos ...
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.