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STP-S29A
Minotaur IV
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LAUNCH SITEVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission
STP-S29A is a mission under the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Test Program (STP) that will deliver technology demonstrations to orbit and contribute to future space system development, with this launch delivering up to 200 kg of STP cubesats to Low Earth Orbit. The main payload will be STPSat-7, an ESPA class satellite based on the Aegis Aerospace M-1 satellite bus used on the STPSat-4 mission for hosting research and technology demonstration payloads for the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the payload is U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution and Debris Observation (LARADO) instrument, used to detect and characterize lethal non-trackable orbital debris with lasers in orbit.
- Launch vehicle
- Minotaur IV
- Mission type
- Technology
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- 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
- 5
- First flight
- 2010-09-26
Recorded timing
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Launch site & orbit
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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