Mission record
Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
Trajectory & orbital insertion · playback
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Provider
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
SSO
Mission type
Heliophysics
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:27:46 GMT
Orbital launch #
#5302 ever
Mission
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.
Deployed payloads · 1