Mission description
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.
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Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
June 28, 2013 at 2:27 AM UTC
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June 28, 2013 at 2:27 AM UTC
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Vandenberg Space Force Base
Air launch to orbit · 34.7328, -120.5681
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Launch probability
- -1%
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- June 28, 2013 at 2:27 AM UTC
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- June 28, 2013 at 2:27 AM UTC
- Feed updated
- June 14, 2023 at 3:55 AM UTC
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Pegasus IRIS Launch June 27,2013
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Pegasus XL
Pegasus
Height
17.6 m
Diameter
1.27 m
LEO capacity
443 kg
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29
Launch complex
Vandenberg Space Force Base
Air launch to orbit
Vandenberg Space Force Base
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