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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission
Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
- Launch vehicle
- Minotaur IV
- Mission type
- Government/Top Secret
- Destination orbit
- Unknown
- Launch pad
- Space Launch Complex 8
- Provider
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Minotaur IV
The Minotaur IV launch system is derived from the Peacekeeper ICBM. The first three stages are taken directly from decommissioned Peacekeeper missiles. A fourth stage, the Orion-38, is taken from the Pegasus family of air-launched rockets.
- Height
- 23.9 m
- Diameter
- 2.35 m
- Stages
- 4
- Recorded launches
- 4
- First flight
- 2010-09-26
Recorded timing
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2h 26m windowPublished target
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Launch site & orbit
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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