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Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

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Launch Details

Date: 28 June 2013, 02:27 am UTC

Rocket: Pegasus XL (Pegasus)

Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation

Mission

Type: Heliophysics

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Pad: Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit

Mission Description

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.