#pegasus 2

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SA-8 Saturn I Block II (AS-104) at LC-37B during a count down demonstration test (CDDT).

Date: May 1965

NASA ID: 107-KSC-65C-3140

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The Apollo Boilerplate (BP-26) "being mated to the SA-8 Saturn I Block II (AS-104) launch vehicle on Launch Complex 37B (LC-37B).

The radial configuration of the forward restraint straps of the Pegasus B/Pegasus 2 micrometeoroid detection satellite can be seen inside the cavity of the Command Module. I think the squarish structure to be two of the stowed/folded solar panels of the satellite."

Date: April-May 1965

Mike Acs's Collection: link

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“This drawing, prepared by the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, shows meteoroid detection panels being deployed (1) on a Saturn-launched satellite, in the folded position aboard the launch vehicle (2), unfolding (3). Unfolded the panels (4) have a wingspan of about 100 feet. The presence of tiny particles in space will be recorded as they collide with the wing skin sensor.”

The three Pegasus satellites launched on SA-8 (AS-103), SA-9 (AS-104) and SA-10 (AS-105).

Date: 1963

Mike Acs's Collection: 63-Meteoroid Satellite-2

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Pegasus satellite housed inside the adapted service module of the Saturn I Block II (SA-8 through SA-10). Metroid Technology Satellite Mission

Date: 1963

NASA Doc: link, link

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Launch of AS-104 (SA-8)

Night launch of the AS-104 Saturn I Block II (BP-16/SA-8) from LC-37B.

Time exposure of the launch of Saturn SA-8, carrying Pegasus-2 spacecraft. Prominent features of the Merritt Island Launch Area - the Vehicle Assembly Building and three Launcher Umbilical Towers - are seen in the background

Diagram showing the major components of the Saturn I SA-8 rocket.

This mission's primary objective was to demonstrate the launch vehicle's iterative guidance mode and to evaluate system accuracy.

It also carried the Pegasus 2 satellite into orbit. Its purpose was to study the frequency of micrometeoroid impacts and long duration effect of space on spacecraft.

Video of the launch and Pegasus 2's unfurling.

Date: May 25, 1965

NASA ID: S65-42937, 65-H-824, 65-H-861, MSFC-9801797

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Posted on Flickr by Drew Granston: link

Saturn I/IB Quarterly Film Report Number Twenty-Four - June 1965: link

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"Three Pegasus satellites were launched to gather data on the the meteoroid environment of low-Earth orbit. Pegasus-3, with a wingspan of 29 meters, included meteoroid-capture panels designed for retrieval by Gemini or Apollo astronauts; it would, however, not receive visitors before it reentered the atmosphere in August 1969."

Image credit: NASA.

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i just kind of...did a thing

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Fan Chengcheng for film Pegasus 2 roadshow in Qingdao