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Conestoga 1620 | Meteor SM
Space Services Inc.Launch Failure

Meteor SM

Conestoga 1620

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LAUNCH SITEWallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Mission

METEOR (Multiple Experiment Transport to Earth Orbit & Return), formerly COMET (Commercial Experiment Transporter), was a NASA program to develop a commercially available experiment transporter for microgravity experiments over longer periods.

Launch vehicle
Conestoga 1620
Mission type
Planetary Science
Destination orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Launch pad
Launch Area 0 A
Provider
Space Services Inc.

The vehicle

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Conestoga 1620
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Launch vehicle

Conestoga 1620

The Conestoga was a launch vehicle design funded by Space Services Inc. of America (SSIA) of Houston, Texas. Conestoga originally consisted of surplus LGM-30 Minuteman stages with additional strap-on boosters, as required for larger payloads. It was the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, but was launched only three times (once as a modified design) before the program was shut down.

Stages
4
Recorded launches
1
First flight
1995-10-23

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Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

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