Pegasus XL Rocket Mated to Stargazer for Swift Boost Mission (SVS15060)

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This video shows Northrop Grumman engineers attaching the Pegasus XL rocket carrying Katalyst's LINK spacecraft to the bottom of the Stargazer aircraft prior to the Swift Boost Mission. 0:00 Pan across the rocket parked in front of the airplane. 0:17 Timelapse of the rocket rolling under the airplane. 1:09 Engineers and technicians work on the Pegasus XL trailer and in the space between the rocket and the bottom of Stargazer. 1:42 Timelapse of the trailer lowering from the front. 1:51 The trailer slowly pulls back from beneath the rocket, seen looking down from the nosecone. Northrop Grumman flight technician Timothy Katzbach briefly kneels in front of camera to watch. 4:27 Timelapse of the trailer moving back a little offset from the nosecone. 4:31 Mark McManus, a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL operations manager, gestures for the tractor driver to pull the trailer back from beneath the rocket as Frank Lopez, a Northrop Grumman quality assurance engineer and Frederick Forest, chief technology officer for Spach Launch observe. 7:27 Timelapse of Stargazer’s wheels lowering back to the ground. 8:07 Timelapse of wheels lowering from the opposite direction. 8:17 Pan in on a still of a fully mated Pegasus and Stargazer.