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

Launch vehicle

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Launch provider

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Payloads deployed · 1

IRIS

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