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Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

Pegasus XL · Heliophysics

2013Vandenberg Space Force Base, Air launch to orbit

Mission

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun's lower atmosphere.

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Mission Facts

Provider
OSC
Rocket
Pegasus XL
Orbit
SSO
Pad
Vandenberg Space Force Base
NET precision
Year
Data source
LL2
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