Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

Mission Details

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.

Type

Heliophysics

Orbit

Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

Launch Site

Pad

Vandenberg Space Force Base

Location

Air launch to orbit

Country

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