Pegasus Air Launch From L-1011

This 36-second video taken August 12, 2003 shows the Pegasus® launch vehicle being released from the L-1011 carrier aircraft, the ignition of its solid rocket motor, and then the beginning of the long climb to orbit. A group of industry entrepreneurs approached Dryden (now Armstrong) in the late 1980's about using the Center B-52 to help them test a new and potentially more cost-effective way of launching small payloads into orbit. Under the sponsorship of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (

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