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Vandenberg CLF
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Commercial Launch Facility - Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Pads: 1. Latitude: 34.5764 N. Longitude: 120.6324 W. Minotaur. - 2000 January 27 03:03 - JAWSAT Launch Vehicle: Minotaur. Minotaur 1OSP / SLV-1 Apogee: 805 km (501 mi). Joint USAF Academy/Weber State Satellite. Payloads included a plasma experiment, a particle detector, and a technology test.
- 2000 July 19 20:09 - Mightysat 2.1 Launch Vehicle: Minotaur. Minotaur 2 Apogee: 581 km (361 mi). Mightysat 2.1, also known as Sindri, used a Spectrum Astro SA-200B satellite bus. The spacecraft carried a hyperspectral imager for earth imaging and spectroscopy, as well as satellite technology experiments such as advanced solar arrays. An Aerospace Corp./DARPA picosatellite experiment, consisting of two small boxes connected by a deployable tether, was deployed later. Similar picosats were deployed on the previous Minotaur launch in January 2000.
- 2005 April 11 13:35 - USA 165 Launch Vehicle: Minotaur. Minotaur 1 Apogee: 872 km (541 mi). Delayed from November 9, 2004; January 19, March 18, 2005. Military Autonomous Rendezvous Technology. It tested navigation technologies for rendezvous that directly measured relative position to the target satellite. It was have to rendezvoused with several defunct American satellites. However it was only known to have conducted operations with its own Minotaur upper stage
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