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...skies over California last week, a launch took place that broke all the rules. A diminutive rocket named Pegasus, built by a Virginia-based entrepreneurial firm called Orbital Sciences, dropped from under the wing of a B-52 and carried into orbit a small 200-kg (450-lb.) satellite, one of a new type of craft that promises to bring space history full circle. Called lightsats, the new payloads pack as much function into a few hundred kilograms as satellites many times their size. At $8 million a launch, they could open space to new military and industrial uses...
...shrinkage has only begun. In July a second Pegasus is scheduled to launch seven 22.5-kg (50-lb.) communications satellites the size of car tires. And scientists are already dreaming about peppering space with swarms of "microspacecraft," each no bigger than a coffee...
...Hubble telescope is finally going into orbit to give astronomers their clearest views of the universe. The Pegasus rocket launches a new era of petite payloads...
...reading was catalyzed by Rushdie, although he is not the focus of the evening," said reading organizer Kenji Yoshino '91, a Pegasus of the Advocate, which sponsored the reading...
...event at Pegasus Farm March 28, Leslie Morgan placed third in beginner walk-trot canter; Cindy Green placed sixth in novice horsemanship-on-the-flat and second in novice horsemanship-over-fences. Kim Smith placed fourth in intermediate horsemanship-on-the-flat and third in the intermediate horsemanship-over-fences...