Minotaur V

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Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC)

Sept. 7, 2013

Description

Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    5
  • Length
    23.9 m
  • Diameter
    2.35 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    36.0 T
  • Thrust
    1600.0 kN
  • Apogee (Sub-Orbital)
    500.0 km
Family
  • Name
    Minotaur V
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Minotaur V
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    1735.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Orbital Sciences Corporation

Commercial
None
OSC

None

Minotaur V | LADEE

Orbital Sciences Corporation | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Sept. 7, 2013, 3:27 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE, pronounced like "laddie") was a robotic mission that orbited the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust.

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