Air-launched rocket drop zone known to have been used for 5 launches from 1993 to 2003, reaching up to 794 kilometers altitude.

1993 February 9 - 14:30 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Pegasus. Pegasus 003/F3 Orbcomm OXP-1 Mass: 15 kg (33 lb). Spacecraft: CDS. Agency: Orbcomm. Perigee: 731 km (454 mi). Apogee: 794 km (493 mi). Inclination: 25.00 deg. Period: 100.10 min. Experimental spacecraft. Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere or outer space (US Cat B).

1998 October 23 - 00:02 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Pegasus. Pegasus H F24/P-33 SCD-2 Mass: 110 kg (240 lb). Spacecraft: SCD. Agency: INPE. Perigee: 742 km (461 mi). Apogee: 768 km (477 mi). Inclination: 25.00 deg. Brazil's SCD-2 satellite was aboard Orbital Science's L-1011 Stargazer aircraft when it took off from the Cape Canaveral Air Station's Skid Strip (Runway 02/20, 28.2N 80.6W) at 23:05 GMT on Oct 22 and flew to the drop zone near Cape Canaveral (in the Mayport, Florida, Warning Area) at 29.0N 78.3W. The Pegasus ignited 5 seconds after drop. The first stage carried a NASA experiment attached to its right wing, to study hypersonic boundary layer separation. The 115 kg Satelite de Coleta de Dados (Data Collection Satellite) relays data from environmental monitoring stations.

2002 February 5 - 20:58 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Pegasus. Pegasus XL F31 HESSI Mass: 449 kg (989 lb). Spacecraft: HESSI. Agency: NASA (U.S.). Perigee: 574 km (356 mi). Apogee: 599 km (372 mi). Inclination: 38.00 deg. Period: 96.40 min. HESSI, the sixth Small Explorer, carried a rotating modulation collimator transform telescope, imaging solar flares in the hard X-ray spectrum. The launch marked the return to flight of Pegasus after the Hyper-X failure. The launch was originally to have occurred on 28 March 2001. The L-1011 launch aircraft took off at 19:29 GMT from the Cape Canaveral Skid Strip RW30/12, and headed out to the drop area at 28.0 N 78.5 W over the Atlantic. Drop of the Pegasus in the Atlantic Drop Zone at 28.0 N 78.5 W was at 20:58 GMT, with ignition 5 seconds later. The Pegasus reached orbit at 21:07 GMT. On the first pass it was confirmed that the solar panels had opened.

The satellite rotated at 15 rpm, imaging by reconstructing the Fourier components from the time modulation of the solar x-ray flux through a set of 9 grids each 9 cm in diameter. It was expected to make images with a resolution of 2 arcseconds at 40 keV energies and 36 arcseconds at 1 MeV energies. The launch delays meant that HESSI missed some of the best flares at solar max.

2003 January 25 - 20:13 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Pegasus. Pegasus XL F32 SORCE Mass: 268 kg (590 lb). Spacecraft: SORCE. Agency: NASA. Perigee: 617 km (384 mi). Apogee: 657 km (408 mi). Inclination: 39.99 deg. Period: 97.31 min. Solar irradiance monitoring, climatology mission. Launch delayed from December 1 and 13, 2002.