2013 · Orbital Sciences Corporation
Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
successPegasus 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.
Overview
- Date / time
- June 28, 2013 at 02:27 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Vandenberg Space Force Base
- Mission
- Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
- Mission type
- Heliophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit