Orbital launch vehicle using surplus Peacekeeper rocket stages: an SR-118 first stage, SR-119 second stage, SR-120 third stage, new Orion 38 fourth stage and optional HAPS fifth stage. Payload 1720 kg to an 185 km, 28.5 degree orbit from Cape Canaveral; 1000 kg to a 740 km sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg.
First Launch: 2010.04.23.
Last Launch: 2011.09.27.
Number: 5 .
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Minotaur 4 Chronology
2010 April 23 - .
23:00 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Vandenberg.
Launch Complex:
Vandenberg SLC8.
LV Family:
Minotaur.
Launch Vehicle:
Minotaur 4.
LV Configuration: Minotaur 4L.
- HTV-2a - .
Nation: USA. Agency: USAF. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi). Summary: Hypersonic test.
2010 September 30 - .
Launch Site:
Vandenberg.
LV Family:
Minotaur.
Launch Vehicle:
Minotaur 4.
LV Configuration: Minotaur IV.
- USA 216 - .
Payload: SBSS. Nation: USA. Agency: USAF. Manufacturer: Ball. Class: Surveillance. Type: Orbital object surveillance satellite. Spacecraft: BCP-2000. USAF Sat Cat: 37168 . COSPAR: 2010-048A. Apogee: 633 km (393 mi). Perigee: 632 km (392 mi). Inclination: 98.0000 deg. Period: 97.40 min. Summary: First Space-Based Surveillance Satellite; designed to track satellites and orbital junk from a space-based vantage point..
2010 November 20 - .
01:25 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Kodiak.
LV Family:
Minotaur.
Launch Vehicle:
Minotaur 4.
- USA 217 - .
Payload: STPSat-2 SIV. Mass: 135 kg (297 lb). Nation: USA. Manufacturer: AeroAstro. Class: Technology. Type: Technology satellite. Spacecraft: STPSat. USAF Sat Cat: 37222 . COSPAR: 2010-062A. Summary: Technology experiments. Lead satellite of USAF Space Test Program mission S26..
- USA 218 - .
Payload: RAX. Mass: 3.00 kg (6.60 lb). Nation: USA. Class: Science. Type: Science satellite. Spacecraft: Cubesat. USAF Sat Cat: 37223 . COSPAR: 2010-062B. Summary: Radio Aurora Explorer, a National Science Foundation 3U cubesat, built by the University of Michigan, to study the aurora by picking up ground-based radar signals..
- USA 219 - .
Payload: O/OREOS. Mass: 5.00 kg (11.00 lb). Nation: USA. Class: Science. Type: Science satellite. Spacecraft: Cubesat. USAF Sat Cat: 37224 . COSPAR: 2010-062C. Summary: 3U cubesat by NASA-Ames with life science experiments to study microbes in free fall and the effects of ultraviolet light on organic materials..
- USA 220 - .
Payload: Fastsat-HSV. Nation: USA. Class: Technology. Type: Technology satellite. USAF Sat Cat: 37225 . COSPAR: 2010-062D. Summary: Developed by NASA-Marshall and subcontractors in Huntsville; carried ionospheric and atmospheric experiments, a USAF experiment, and the Nanosail-D2 solar sail..
- USA 221 - .
Payload: Falconsat-5. Mass: 161 kg (354 lb). Nation: USA. Class: Technology. Type: Technology satellite. USAF Sat Cat: 37226 . COSPAR: 2010-062E. Summary: US Air Force Academy satellite with experiments to study plasma and the ionosphere..
- USA 222 - .
Payload: Fastrac 1. Mass: 30 kg (66 lb). Nation: USA. Class: Technology. Type: Technology satellite. USAF Sat Cat: 37227 . COSPAR: 2010-062F. Summary: Developed by University of Texas at Austin with USAF fuding for formation flying experiments..
- Ballast A - .
Payload: S26 Ballast A. Nation: USA. USAF Sat Cat: 37230 . COSPAR: 2010-062J.
- Ballast B - .
Payload: S26 Ballast B. Nation: USA. USAF Sat Cat: 37231 . COSPAR: 2010-062K.
2011 August 11 - .
14:45 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Vandenberg.
Launch Complex:
Vandenberg SLC8.
LV Family:
Minotaur.
Launch Vehicle:
Minotaur 4.
LV Configuration: Minotaur 4 Lite.
- HTV-2b - .
Nation: USA. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi). Summary: Test mission. Hypersonic glider was launched from Vandenberg across the Pacific. The mission ended prematurely with loss of signal three minutes into the glider's free flight..
2011 September 27 - .
15:49 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Kodiak.
LV Family:
Minotaur.
Launch Vehicle:
Minotaur 4.
LV Configuration: Minotaur 4+.
- Tacsat 4 - .
Nation: USA. Program: Tacsat. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: Tacsat ORS. USAF Sat Cat: 37818 . COSPAR: 2011-052A. Apogee: 12,010 km (7,460 mi). Perigee: 742 km (461 mi). Inclination: 63.6000 deg. Period: 238.90 min. Naval Research Laboratory UHF communications satellite, equipped with a 3.7-meter-diameter communications antenna to support military handheld satellite telephones. Launch used an uprated Minotaur IV with an ATK Star 48V motor replacing the Orion 38 upper stage.
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