TSX-5

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

13:19:00

Wednesday June 7, 2000

Mission Details

TSX-5

TSX 5 (Tri-Service eXperiments 5) it carried a compact environmental anomaly sensor (CEASE) to probe the near-spacecraft environment. Also on board were the STRV-2 and MWIR instruments: the former to experiment with laser communications between spacecraft and the latter to provide infrared images of flying aircraft.

1 Payload

250 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Pegasus XL

Active Since 1994

Northrop Grumman logo

Agency

Northrop

Price

$40.00 million

Rocket

Height: 17.6m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 443 kg

Liftoff Thrust

561 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 1.15m

Height: 2.13m

Stages

4

Launch Site

Stargazer

Vandenberg SFB, California, USA

Fastest Turnaround

46 days 5 hours

Stats

Pegasus


29th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2000

2000


32nd

Orbital launch attempt