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As of 2015, the most recent Pegasus XL to be purchased — a planned June 2017 launch of NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission — had a total cost of US$56.3 million, which NASA notes includes "firm-fixed launch service costs, spacecraft processing, payload integration, tracking, data and telemetry and other launch support ...
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.
Launch Date Mission Vehicle Launch Site Total Launch Cost* (million) 1998 [3] 1998.10.24 Deep Space 1: Delta II 7326-9.5 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 (CCAFS SLC 17A) 1998.12.06 Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) Pegasus XL: Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) 1998.12.11 Mars Climate Orbiter: Delta II 7425
Since 1990, NASA has purchased expendable launch vehicle launch services directly from commercial providers, whenever possible, for its scientific and applications missions. Expendable launch vehicles can accommodate all types of orbit inclinations and altitudes and are ideal vehicles for launching Earth-orbit and interplanetary missions.
The Taurus launch vehicle, later renamed [1] Minotaur-C (for "Minotaur-Commercial"), was the first of the Minotaur vehicle family, and the first ground-launched orbital booster developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), derived by adding a solid booster stage to the air-launched Pegasus rocket. The first flight, sponsored by DARPA, was in ...
Now known as the Medium Launch Vehicle, or MLV, the rocket is now 4.32 m (14.17 ft) in diameter with 7 Miranda engines on the first stage and 1 Vira engine on the second stage. [52] It will be capable of delivering over 16,000 kg to LEO in a 5 m (16.4 ft) fairing. [ 53 ]
Pegasus: 3 United States: Orbital Sciences: 16.9 1.27 18.5 375 1990 10/11 ? Pegasus XL: 3 ... Comparison of space station cargo vehicles; List of space launch system ...
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.