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Type: Air Drop Zone. Latitude: 27.00000 deg. Longitude: -15.30000 deg.

Air-launched rocket drop zone known to have been used for 1 launch in 1997, reaching up to 580 kilometers altitude.

General / Launch Complex Unknown Chronology

1997 April 21 - 11:59 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Pegasus. Pegasus XL F15 Minisat-01 Mass: 209 kg (460 lb). Spacecraft: Minisat. Agency: INTA. Perigee: 561 km (348 mi). Apogee: 580 km (360 mi). Inclination: 151.00 deg. Period: 96.00 min. Minisat-01 carried the EURD extreme ultraviolet spectrograph to study interstellar gas, the LEGRI gamma ray burst detector, and the CPLM microacceleration in liquids experiment.

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