Gando
Gando
Credit - © Mark Wade
Type: Orbital Launch Site. Operator: USA. Country: Spain. Latitude: 27°55' N. Longitude: 15°19' W.

Launch site on Canary Islands, near NASA tracking station, considered for several planned Spanish and Italian orbital launch vehicles. L-1011 carrier aircraft staging from Gran Canaria air-launch Pegasus launch vehicles into orbit near here (drop point 27.00 N 15.30 W).

Launch Pads
  • Name: Runway 03/21. Latitude: 27.9200 N. Longitude: 15.3200 W. Launch Pads: 1. Pegasus XL.
Gando Chronology and Launch Log
  • 1997 April 21 11:59 - Minisat-01 Launch Vehicle: Pegasus XL. Pegasus XL F15 LC: L-1011. Apogee: 580 km (360 mi). 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.

Bibliography and Further Reading
  • McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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