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L-1011 Stargazer - three-stage Pegasus launch vehicle - Pegasus
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Registered: May 2008
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The L-1011 Stargazer with its Pegasus space
launch vehicle uses the Western Range to launch satellites into a low earth orbit.
The three-stage Pegasus launch vehicle is carried aloft by the company-owned L-1011
aircraft to a point approximately 40,000 feet over open ocean areas, where it
is released and then free-falls in a horizontal position for five seconds before
igniting its first stage rocket motor. With the aerodynamic lift generated by
its delta wing, the small rocket achieves orbit hundreds of miles above the Earth
in approximately ten minutes. (Courtesy photo)
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