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Cape Canaveral RW30
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Skid Strip (Runway 30/12) - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Pads: 1. Latitude: 28.7338 N. Longitude: 79.4333 W. Pegasus, Pegasus XL, Navaho X-10. - 1958 September 24 - Navaho X-10 Drone BOMARC target mission 1 Launch Vehicle: Navaho X-10. X-10 s/n 12 GM-52-5 The remaining X-10's were expended as targets for Bomarc and Nike antiaircraft missiles. The X-10 flew out over the ocean, then accelerated toward the Cape at supersonic speed. A Bomarc A missile came within lethal miss distance. The X-10 then autolanded on the Skid Strip, but both the drag chute and landing barrier failed. The vehicle ran off the runway and exploded.
- 1958 November 13 - Navaho X-10 Drone BOMARC target mission 2 Launch Vehicle: Navaho X-10. X-10 s/n 7 GM-19313 The X-10 flew out over the ocean, then accelerated toward the Cape. However the Bomarc A failed to launch. Autoland was successful, but again the drag chute and landing barrier both failed, and the vehicle burned after overrunning the runway.
- 1959 January 26 - Navaho X-10 Drone BOMARC target mission 3 Launch Vehicle: Navaho X-10. X-10 s/n 10 GM-52-3 The X-10 was launched with only one electrical generator due to a lack of any remaining spares. As it headed out over the ocean, that generator failed. It lost all electrical power, and crashed into the ocean 105 km downrange.
- 1998 October 23 00:02 - SCD-2 Launch Vehicle: Pegasus. Pegasus H F24/P-33 Apogee: 768 km (477 mi). Brazil's SCD-2 satellite was aboard Orbital Science's L-1011 Stargazer aircraft when it took off from the Cape Canaveral Air Station's Skid Strip (Runway 02/20, 28.2N 80.6W) at 23:05 GMT on Oct 22 and flew to the drop zone near Cape Canaveral (in the Mayport, Florida, Warning Area) at 29.0N 78.3W. The Pegasus ignited 5 seconds after drop. The first stage carried a NASA experiment attached to its right wing, to study hypersonic boundary layer separation. The 115 kg Satelite de Coleta de Dados (Data Collection Satellite) relays data from environmental monitoring stations.
- 2002 February 5 20:58 - HESSI Launch Vehicle: Pegasus XL. Pegasus XL F31 Apogee: 599 km (372 mi). HESSI, the sixth Small Explorer, carried a rotating modulation collimator transform telescope, imaging solar flares in the hard X-ray spectrum. The launch marked the return to flight of Pegasus after the Hyper-X failure. The launch was originally to have occurred on 28 March 2001. The L-1011 launch aircraft took off at 19:29 GMT from the Cape Canaveral Skid Strip RW30/12, and headed out to the drop area at 28.0 N 78.5 W over the Atlantic. Drop of the Pegasus in the Atlantic Drop Zone at 28.0 N 78.5 W was at 20:58 GMT, with ignition 5 seconds later. The Pegasus reached orbit at 21:07 GMT. On the first pass it was confirmed that the solar panels had opened.
The satellite rotated at 15 rpm, imaging by reconstructing the Fourier components from the time modulation of the solar x-ray flux through a set of 9 grids each 9 cm in diameter. It was expected to make images with a resolution of 2 arcseconds at 40 keV energies and 36 arcseconds at 1 MeV energies. The launch delays meant that HESSI missed some of the best flares at solar max.
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