Photo: Jeff Caplan, Langley Research Centre, NASA · Public domain (US government)
Mission
Heliophysics · SSO
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun's lower atmosphere.
What it put in orbit
| Object | Type | Orbit | Globe |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRIS 2013-033A | Payload | 594 × 626 km · 97.9° | Globe |
| PEGASUS R/B 2013-033B | Rocket body | 596 × 622 km · 97.9° | Globe |
COSPAR ID 2013-033 (data from GCAT, J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0). Orbits from the CelesTrak satellite catalogue (perigee × apogee, inclination).