Successfully delivered into orbit by the Pegasus launch vehicle, the SORCE spacecraft continues to operate flawlessly. All planned contacts with SORCE have been successful, and spacecraft commissioning activities are proceeding as planned and on schedule.
The Spacecraft Launched Successfully on Jan 25, 2003 !

SORCE News

January 25, 2003

Successfully delivered into orbit by the Pegasus launch vehicle, the SORCE spacecraft continues to operate flawlessly. All planned contacts with SORCE have been successful, and spacecraft commissioning activities are proceeding as planned and on schedule. All ob-board subsystems report nominal conditions.

I have sie the complete launch on the nasa tv

The Pegasus Launch Vehicle are a verry nice machine. The three-stage Pegasus launch vehicle is carried aloft by the aircraft to a point approximately 40,000 feet over open ocean areas, where it is released and then free-falls in a horizontal position for five seconds before igniting its first stage rocket motor. With the aerodynamic lift generated by its delta wing, the small rocket achieves orbit hundreds of miles above the Earth in approximately ten minutes.

http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/index.html

73 de jan pe2jmr