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Pegasus launch puts solar research craft in orbit
The newest spacecraft to launch in NASA's oldest program -- the Explorer project that dates back to America's first satellite -- was propelled into Earth orbit Thursday night by an air-launched rocket off the coast of California.
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Pegasus XL launches NuSTAR |
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Air-launched Pegasus boosts NASA telescope
NASA's NuSTAR satellite rocketed into orbit Wednesday aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL vehicle for its X-ray astronomy mission to gaze at the remnants of exploded stars, study the extreme physics around black holes and observe our own Sun's corona.
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IMAGES: TOUR OF THE L-1011 CARRIER JET
ARCHIVE: EARLIER STORY ON VAFB DEPARTURE
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OUR PEGASUS ARCHIVE
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Pegasus XL launches IBEX |
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New satellite to study solar system's distant frontier
A small eight-sided satellite has marked the start of a two-year mission of long-distance exploration to study the little-known boundary between the solar system and the galaxy beyond.
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Pegasus XL launches C/NOFS |
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Satellite launched to predict communication outages
An experimental Air Force satellite designed to monitor the Earth's ionosphere and foresee impending communication disruptions was successfully deployed into space on April 16, 2008 by an Orbital Sciences air-launched Pegasus rocket.
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Pegasus XL launches AIM |
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Satellite to unveil secrets of Earth's highest clouds
NASA launched a clue-seeking satellite on April 25, 2007 to track eerily mysterious clouds at the threshold of space that some scientists believe are the harbingers of global climate change.
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Pegasus XL launches ST 5 |
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Tiny probes launched to test advanced technologies
Three trail-blazing satellites were fired into Earth orbit March 22, 2006 to prove if TV-sized probes can serve as formation-flying buoys for monitoring the weather of space and the enormous storms spawned by the sun.
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Pegasus XL launches DART |
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NASA space autopilot test suffers crippling flaw
NASA's $110 million high-risk, high-tech demonstration of a space autopilot for future human spaceships and robotic cargo craft closed within 300 feet of its target April 15, 2005, then inexplicably ran out of fuel to the dismay of helpless engineers on the ground.
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Pegasus XL launches SciSat 1 |
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Canada's ozone research project launched into space
A Canadian endeavor to study the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere and the fragile ozone layer was successfully propelled into space August 12 by an air-launched rocket.
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Pegasus XL launches OrbView 3 |
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Commercial Earth imager launched into space
A commercial satellite that will snap sharp photos of Earth's surface soared into space June 26, boosting a Virginia-based company's hopes of establishing a foothold in the high-resolution imaging business.
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Pegasus XL launches GALEX |
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Satellite launched to trace the evolution of galaxies
A diminutive satellite with a monumental goal of mapping the history of star formation in a million galaxies streaked into space April 28 atop an air-launched rocket booster.
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Pegasus XL launches SORCE |
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Air-launched rocket gives boost to climate research
Cruising about 39,000 feet above the open waters of the Atlantic, an air-launched Pegasus rocket was dropped from the belly of a carrier jet January 25, 2003 to blast a science satellite into orbit to study the Sun's influence on Earth's environment.
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Pegasus XL launches HESSI |
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Solar explorer successfully launched by Pegasus rocket
After a 19-month delay, NASA's HESSI spacecraft was finally lofted into orbit February 5, 2002 aboard an air-launched Pegasus rocket, but not without a hiccup in the countdown that forced officials to abort one attempt before succeeding a second time around.
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Hybrid Pegasus launches HETE 2 |
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Pegasus rocket launches NASA science probe
An Orbital Sciences air-launched Pegasus rocket successfully lofted NASA's High Energy Transient Explorer 2 spacecraft October 9, 2000 to seek out gamma ray bursts -- the most powerful explosions in the universe. MISSION STATUS CENTER
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Pegasus XL launches TSX 5 |
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Air-launched Pegasus orbits U.S. Air Force mission
Orbital Sciences launched a Pegasus XL rocket on June 7, 2000 off the coast of California, placing an experimental research satellite into orbit for the U.S. Air Force.
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Pegasus XL/HAPS launches ORBCOMMs |
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Pegasus rocket launches carrying seven satellites
A Pegasus XL rocket successfully launched seven data relay satellites for the ORBCOMM communications network December 4, 1999. ORBCOMM now has 35 satellites in space. MISSION STATUS CENTER
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