Pegasus Rocket Set To Launch NASA Weather Satellite Into Space Written 9 October 2019

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Pegasus Rocket Set To Launch NASA Weather Satellite Into Space

The Orlando Sentinel reports that “NASA will attempt to send the Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite, or ICON, into space on board a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket launched from the company’s L-1011 Stargazer aircraft taking off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday night.” (Image: Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 Stargazer takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 19, 2018, with its Pegasus XL rocket, containing NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON), attached beneath the aircraft | NASA)
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