Mission record
Pegasus XL | High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE) & Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-B (SAC-B)
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
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Mission type
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Launch site
United States of America
Date
Mon, 04 Nov 1996 17:08:56 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4106 ever
Failure
Battery failure in the Pegasus XL rocket third stage, satellites did not separate from third stage.