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... be strapped to the bottom of an aircraft, the L-1011 Stargazer, also operated by Orbital, on June 2. The Stargazer is scheduled to fly from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California to Kwajalein June 5-6. On launch day, the Stargazer will take off and at around 11:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m ...

... Orbital ATK’s Pegasus XL rocket, which is attached to the company’s L-1011 “Stargazer” aircraft and will carry ICON into orbit. There also will be opportunities to tour the ... . Monday, June 4 There will be an opportunity to tour the Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft and interview officials involved in the launch and mission. Interview participants: Omar Baez, launch ... opportunity to view the takeoff of the ferry flight of the Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer with the Pegasus XL rocket that will air launch ICON. Media should meet at the ...

... missions, and we plan to extend our work in this area." USAF launched its second Stargazer balloon from Chico, Calif., and achieved an altitude of some 88,000 ft. Balloon performed ... flights that would send two men and a stabilized telescope to 16 miles. The first Stargazer burst at 40,000 ft. on March 4. March 1962 March Mar 1 1962 1 ...

... around Mars; and radio-telescope to register streams of low-energy protons and electrons. Project Stargazer balloon landed after 18½-hr. trip to 82,000-ft. altitude, in southwestern New Mexico ... telescope mounted on top of gondola. J. Allen Hynek , director of USAF OAR’s Project Stargazer , predicted great future for balloon astronomy. General Assembly of the United Nations voted unanimously to ...

... Ice in Mesosphere AIM ) satellite aboard a Pegasus-XL rocket dropped from a Stargazer -L-1011 aircraft. The Stargazer launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 21:26 (UT). NASA ...

... California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The observatory began its journey aboard the L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft, operated by Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va. NuSTAR was perched atop Orbital's Pegasus XL rocket, both of which were strapped to the belly of the Stargazer plane. The plane left Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean one hour before launch ...

... Sciences Corporation Pegasus XL rocket which is mounted on the bottom of an L-1011 Stargazer aircraft. The airplane will take off from Kwajalein Atoll and release the rocket, which will ignite its engines in the air. The Stargazer departed Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California June 5 and will land at Kwajalein ...

... to tackle mysteries about our solar system's origins that are frozen inside comets. For stargazers, opportunities to view the comet are possible throughout October. On Wednesday, Oct. 20, Hartley 2 ... . Observers will need binoculars or telescopes from urban areas in the Northern Hemisphere. Southern Hemisphere stargazers can see the comet later in the month. WISE captured its view of the comet ...

... Space Council. ''(Wash. Post, 3/27/63; Wash. Eve. Star, 3,/27/63)'' USAF Project Stargazer balloon flight from Alamogordo, N.M., canceled because of high surface winds. Balloon was equipped ...

... postponement of an attempt to send two men to 85,000-ft. altitude in Project Stargazer balloon, Holloman AFB , New Mexico. Purposes of flight were to determine at what altitude stars ...

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