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Artist impression of the ICON spacecraft in flight
Image credit: NASA
Launch of Pegasus XL with payload ICON
Video credit: NASA
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Launch scheduled for 11 Oct 19 at 1:30 GMT Local time 10 Oct 19 at 9:30pm Eastern A Pegasus XL rocket will be launched from NASA's Stargazer L-1011 aircraft in mid air at 39,000ft. Pegasus XL is a winged, three-stage solid propellant rocket built by Northrop Grumman that will launch the ICON satellite into low earth orbit. The Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) will study the frontier of space: the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather above. In this region, the tenuous gases are anything but quiet, as a mix of neutral and charged particles travel through in giant winds. These winds can change on a wide variety of time scales -- due to Earth's seasons, the day's heating and cooling, and incoming bursts of radiation from the sun. |
