flown missionSuccess
Minotaur | NROL-8
Orbital Sciences CorporationSpace Launch Complex 576E — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- NROL-8 (STEX)
- Type
- Government/Top Secret
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
The STEX (Space Technology Experiments) satellite carried 29 new technologies intended to result in lower cost and higher performance spacecraft for future missions.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Minotaur C
- Family
- Minotaur
- Variant
- C
- Provider
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 576E
- Location
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Coordinates
- 34.7394, -120.6192