Minotaur

In-active

Orbital ATK (OA)

March 13, 1994

Description

Specifications
  • Length
  • Diameter
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Minotaur
  • Family
  • Variant
    C
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Minotaur C
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Orbital ATK

Commercial
President: David W. Thompson
OA 2015

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.

Minotaur-C (Taurus XL) | 6 x SkySat & 4 x Dove

Orbital ATK | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 31, 2017, 9:37 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Dedicated rideshare

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Minotaur-C (Taurus XL) | Glory

Orbital ATK | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 4, 2011, 10:09 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Unknown Mission

There are no mission or payload details available for this launch.


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Minotaur | NROL-8

Orbital ATK | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 3, 1998, 10:04 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The STEX (Space Technology Experiments) satellite carried 29 new technologies intended to result in lower cost and higher performance spacecraft for future missions.

Low Earth Orbit
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Minotaur | STEP 0 & DARPASAT

Orbital ATK | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 13, 1994, 10:32 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

STEP 0 (Space Test Experiment Platform 0) was a technology demonstration satellite flown under the Space Test Program (STP). DARPASAT (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Satellite) was designed to demonstrate advanced technology. Ball Aerospace designed, fabricated, integrated, and tested the spacecraft bus, and integrated two government-supplied payloads.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9
Success
4 hours, 11 minutes ago
Starlink Group 6-59
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Soyuz 2.1b
Success
1 day, 7 hours ago
Kosmos 2576
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Russian military payload of unknown purposes.


Falcon 9
Success
3 days, 10 hours ago
Starlink Group 8-7
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
5 days, 3 hours ago
Starlink Group 6-58
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 4C
Success
6 days, 5 hours ago
Shiyan 23
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Satellite officially named for "space environment detection" purposes, exact details unknown.