Stargazer is a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar built in 1974, that was modified in 1994 for use by Orbital Sciences (now part of Northrop Grumman) as a mother...
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astronomy. Stargazer (aircraft), a Lockheed L-1011 airliner used to launch the Pegasus rocket Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, nicknamed Stargazer, the...
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(retrieved 15 May 2014) "A unique database on Burt Rutan and his projects!". Stargazer. Online. 2006. Archived from the original on 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2013-04-20...
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Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (category Lockheed aircraft)
withdrew from the commercial aircraft business due to its below-target sales. As of 2024, only one L-1011 is in service, as Stargazer. In the 1960s, American...
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jetliner, which is named Stargazer and is used to air launch Pegasus rockets carrying payloads into space. The Stargazer aircraft is also used for testing...
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Spain; a single Pegasus-XL was launched from Orbital Sciences' Stargazer aircraft flying from Gran Canaria Airport in April 1997. Marshall Islands...
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actual plane being N140SC currently operated as Stargazer. Although a Boeing 777 is mentioned as aircraft for the ill-fated Oceanic Airlines Flight 815...
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This list is only of aircraft that have an article, indexed by aircraft registration "tail number" (civil registration or military serial number). The...
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Kwajalein Atoll. The Pegasus launch vehicle was dropped from the L-1011 'Stargazer' aircraft. On 22 June 2012, it was confirmed that the 10 m (33 ft) mast was...
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Pegasus-XL launch vehicle, which was air-launched from the Lockheed L-1011 Stargazer aircraft operated by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC). Spaceflight portal...
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Scaled Composites Stratolaunch (redirect from Stratolaunch carrier aircraft)
era Conroy Virtus Stargazer Related lists List of large aircraft "Stratolaunch airborne in first flight of world's largest aircraft". Flightglobal. April...
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Rutan Long-EZ (redirect from Rutan Aircraft Factory Long-EZ)
the Rocket Racer aircraft's main engine." XCOR X-Racer, by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, 2009-08-06, accessed 2010-04-26. "STARGAZER – A unique database...
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14 0 0 Cape Canaveral United States 16 16 0 0 Two launches used Stargazer aircraft Jiuquan China 2 2 0 0 Kennedy United States 1 0 1 0 Kourou France...
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Northrop Grumman Pegasus (section Carrier aircraft)
carrier aircraft. Initially, a NASA-owned B-52 Stratofortress NB-008 served as the carrier aircraft. By 1994, Orbital had transitioned to their "Stargazer" L-1011...
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Scaled Composites (redirect from Rutan Aircraft Factory)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scaled Composites. Official website Stargazer – The Ultimate Online Resource on Every Known Rutan Project Aerofiles...
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Air launch (redirect from Launch aircraft)
since, launched mostly from the company's own Lockheed L-1011 known as Stargazer. Orbital Sciences was developing the Pegasus II launcher that would have...
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States 4 4 0 0 Kwajalein Marshall Islands 4 3 1 0 Two launches used Stargazer aircraft Kourou France 6 6 0 0 Ocean Odyssey International 5 5 0 0 Plesetsk...
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Rutan Boomerang (category 1990s United States civil utility aircraft)
pp. 50–53. ISSN 0032-4558. Retrieved 1 April 2006 – via Google Books. "STARGAZER - A unique database on Burt Rutan and his projects!". stargazer2006.online...
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This is a list of individual aircraft which are notable in their own right. "'Cape Cod's' Success Climaxes 5 Years [of] Bellanca Records". The Sunday Morning...
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Spirit of Mojave (redirect from Cosmic Girl (aircraft))
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spirit of Mojave and Cosmic Girl (aircraft). Stargazer N140SC; the Orbital L1011 mothership for Pegasus rockets Balls 8...
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Tanegashima Japan 1 1 0 0 Uchinoura Japan 1 1 0 0 Vandenberg United States 5 5 0 0 One launch used Stargazer aircraft Xichang China 1 1 0 0 Total 55 52 3 0...
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A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines. Pushers may be classified according to lifting surfaces layout (conventional...
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China 3 3 0 0 Tanegashima Japan 2 2 0 0 Vandenberg United States 4 4 0 0 One launch used Stargazer aircraft Xichang China 6 6 0 0 Total 68 63 3 2...
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horizontal-takeoff aircraft, to carry satellites to low Earth orbit. It is a follow-on development of air launches of experimental aircraft that began in the...
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Hypersonic flight (redirect from Hypersonic aircraft)
conventional runways. Hermeus Halcyon hypersonic transport Venus Aerospace Stargazer hypersonic airliner with rotating detonation rocket engine POLARIS Raumflugzeuge...
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North Korea 1 0 1 0 Uchinoura Japan 2 2 0 0 Vandenberg United States 6 6 0 0 One launch used Stargazer aircraft Xichang China 3 3 0 0 Total 67 62 5 0...
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31 December 2016. "RUTAN MODEL 61-PD " LONG-EZ PDE " (" BOREALIS ")". Stargazer. Verseless. Retrieved 14 April 2017. "Fairchild C-82 Packet". National...
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A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines and may be classified according to engine/propeller location and drive...
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Rutan VariViggen (category Aircraft specs templates using improper note parameter)
information Stargazer Website on VariViggen (models 27 & 32 information) Stargazer Website on Twin Turbojet powered VariViggen Stargazer Website on all...
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Mother ship (category Aircraft by design configuration)
ship may be a maritime ship, aircraft, or spacecraft. Examples include bombers converted to carry experimental aircraft to altitudes where they can conduct...
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