Minotaur IV | NROL-174
Launch Successful
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Launch Window
April 16, 2025, 7 p.m. - April 16, 2025, 9:26 p.m.
April 16, 2025, 7 p.m. - April 16, 2025, 9:26 p.m.
Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Launch success
Apparent liftoff
Tweaked T-0.
GO for launch.
NET April 16.
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.
Orbital ATK Inc. was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense industry company. It was formed in 2015 from the merger of Orbital Sciences Corporation and parts of Alliant Techsystems. Orbital ATK was purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2018.
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