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KSC-2013-2943
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – An F-18 aircraft departs from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The plane will serve as the "chase plane" accompanying the Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft as it transports the Pegasus XL rocket carrying NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, solar observatory over the Pacific Ocean. Release of the rocket from under the wing of the L-1011 is scheduled for 10:27 p.m. EDT.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-2013-2943. NASA/KSC, 2013-06-27. Public domain. ID: KSC-2013-2943.
