Orbital Sciences CorporationPegasus HybridVandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit
Pegasus Hybrid | Orbcomm F1 - F2 & OrbView-1
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Orbital Sciences Corporation's 9th launch · 1st this year · humanity's 3,981st orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Apr 3, 13:48 – Apr 3, 13:48 UTC
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Orbcomm FM1 & FM2 / OrbView-1
This Pegasus flight carried the first two operational Orbcomm satellites, the start of a low-orbit constellation for short data messaging and asset tracking, together with OrbView-1 (MicroLab-1), which carried NASA's Optical Transient Detector lightning sensor and a GPS occultation experiment for atmospheric sounding.
Communications · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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