Pegasus XL
SuccessInterface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) · Orbital Sciences Corporation
Launch time (NET)
Friday, Jun 28, 2013, 02:27 UTC
Launch window
Friday, Jun 28, 2013, 02:27 UTC – Friday, Jun 28, 2013, 02:27 UTC
Provider
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Rocket
Launch pad
Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit · Open map
Status
Success
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Mission
Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
Type
Heliophysics
Orbit
Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
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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