Orbital launches HETE-2 in Pegasus mission staged at Kwajalein

Orbital Sciences Corp. launched the international High-Energy Transient Explorer (HETE-2) spacecraft early yesterday in the first Pegasus air-launched rocket mission to stage out of the Kwajalein Missile Range in the Marshall Islands. Orbital's L-1011 carrier aircraft launched the winged Pegasus...

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