Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

Name: Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
Start: 2013-06-28T02:27:46Z
Location: Air launch to orbit

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 Details

Launch date: June 28, 2013 at 02:27 AM UTC
Launch vehicle: Pegasus XL
Operator: Orbital Sciences Corporation
Launch site: Air launch to orbit
Mission type: Heliophysics