Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

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Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

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.

Mission type: Heliophysics · Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Rocket: Pegasus XL · Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation

Launch pad

Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit · View on map (opens in new tab)