NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Pegasus Processing

The wing of the Pegasus XL launch vehicle awaits processing in a clean room at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Orbital Sciences Corp. Pegasus rocket will launch the NuSTAR) spacecraft from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at the Pacific Ocean’s Kwajalein Atoll.

Image credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin, VAFB
July 21, 2011