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Launch Date
6/13/2021
Launch Site
Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
, US
Launch Vehicle
Pegasus XL (Pegasus Family)
Pegasus delivered TacRL-2 to a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit.
The TacRL-2 satellite was built and will be operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory.
A U.S. Space Force mission named TacRL-2 is scheduled to launch on 2021-06-13 as a monitoring satellite intended to provide space domain awareness.
The Space Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $28,000,000 contract for the TacRL-2 launch.
The U.S. Space Force paid $28,000,000 for the TacRL-2 launch.
TacRL-2 launched a surveillance satellite developed in less than a year on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket deployed from a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar carrier aircraft.