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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 ...
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
Expendable launch vehicles can accommodate all types of orbit inclinations and altitudes and are ideal vehicles for launching Earth-orbit and interplanetary missions. The Launch Services Program was established at Kennedy Space Center for NASA's acquisition and program management of expendable launch vehicle missions.
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.
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]
The launch system would consist of three primary components: a carrier aircraft, contracted to Scaled Composites; a launch vehicle, originally contracted to SpaceX as a derivative of the Falcon 9 [8] —later contracted to Orbital Sciences as the Pegasus II; and a mating and integration system to enable the aircraft to safely interface with ...
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 ...
All launch vehicle propulsion systems employed to date have been chemical rockets falling into one of three main categories: Solid-propellant rockets or solid-fuel rockets have a motor that uses solid propellants , typically a mix of powdered fuel and oxidizer held together by a polymer binder and molded into the shape of a hollow cylinder.