Orbital Sciences Corporation

Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

Pegasus XL

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Friday, June 28, 2013 · 02:27 UTC

Mission

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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.

Mission Type

Heliophysics

Orbit

Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Pegasus XL

Launch Pad

Vandenberg Space Force Base

Air launch to orbit

34.733° N, 120.568° W

21

Pad Launches

42

Location Launches

66

Agency Launches

34

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