New Solar Mission Launched On Pegasus Rocket | Video

Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 22:00 in Astronomy & Space

A Pegasus-XL rocket carrying NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) was dropped from the underside of Orbital Sciences' Lockheed L1011 TriStar aircraft and launched on June 27th, 2013.

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