Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) launch

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Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

Name: Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
Start: 2013-06-28T02:27:46Z
Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit

Pegasus XL · IRIS

Launched Fri, Jun 28 · 2:27:46 AM UTC2013-06-28 02:27:46 UTCVandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit

Reached orbit

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Success

Reached Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Worldwide

34th

orbital launch attempt in 2013

Orbital Sciences Corporation

2nd

launch this year

Vandenberg Space Force Base

1st

launch from this pad this year

Pad turnaround

2255 d 6 h

since the pad's previous launch

Replay

Replay: Pegasus IRIS Launch June 27,2013

Mission

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun's lower atmosphere.

Launch Provider

Orbital Sciences Corporation

Commercial · United States of America

Launches

Successful

90%

Upcoming

scheduled

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Pegasus XL

Vehicle history

Height

17.6m

Diameter

1.3m

To low Earth orbit

443kg

Liftoff thrust

580kN

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Orbital Sciences CorporationLaunch SuccessfulHeliophysics

Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

Pegasus XL · IRIS

Launched Fri, Jun 28 · 2:27:46 AM UTC2013-06-28 02:27:46 UTCVandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit

Reached orbit

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Success

Reached Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Worldwide

34th

orbital launch attempt in 2013

Orbital Sciences Corporation

2nd

launch this year

Vandenberg Space Force Base

1st

launch from this pad this year

Pad turnaround

2255 d 6 h

since the pad's previous launch

Replay

Replay: Pegasus IRIS Launch June 27,2013

Mission

Launch Provider

Orbital Sciences Corporation

Commercial · United States of America

Launches

Successful

90%

Upcoming

scheduled

All Orbital Sciences Corporation launches Website Wikipedia

Pegasus XL

Vehicle history

Height

17.6m

Diameter

1.3m

To low Earth orbit

443kg

Liftoff thrust

580kN

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Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

Replay

Mission

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Pegasus XL

Never Miss a Launch.

Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

Replay

Mission

Orbital Sciences Corporation

Pegasus XL

Never Miss a Launch.