Hurricane Watcher Launch
In this view from NASA’s F-18 chase aircraft, Orbital ATK’s L-1011 flies above just before it launched a Pegasus XL rocket carrying the CYGNSS hurricane-watcher satellites into orbit last December.
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In this view from NASA’s F-18 chase aircraft, Orbital ATK’s L-1011 flies above just before it launched a Pegasus XL rocket carrying the CYGNSS hurricane-watcher satellites into orbit last December.