Digest Minotaur-IV/V
|
Version
|
Orbit
|
Date
|
Intern. Design
|
Spacecraft
|
Mass (t)
|
Launch site
|
|
Inclin. |
km |
|
IV Lite |
suborbital
|
23.04.2010*
|
-
|
Falcon HTV-2A |
|
|
Vandenberg
|
|
11.08.2011*
|
-
|
Falcon HTV-2B |
|
|
|
|
|
IV |
98°
|
538 - 540
|
26.09.2010
|
2010-48
|
SBSS |
1.031 |
- |
Vandenberg
|
| 72° |
652 - 641 |
19.11.2010
|
2010-62
|
STP-2, FASTSAT,
FASTRAC 1+2, FalconSat-5 etc. |
|
+ HAPS |
Kodiak
|
| 0° |
600 - 600 |
26.08.2017
|
2017-50
|
ORS-5 (SensorSat) |
0.140 |
+ Orion-38 |
Cape Canaveral
|
|
|
|
15.07.2020
|
2020-46
|
NROL-129 |
|
Wallops Is.
|
|
|
| IV+ |
63.4° |
HEEO |
27.09.2011
|
2011-52
|
TacSat-4 |
0.460 |
|
Kodiak
|
|
|
| V |
|
LTO |
07.09.2013
|
2013-47
|
LADEE
|
0.383 |
|
Wallops Is.
|
* The Minotaur IV "Lite", essentially a retired three-stage Peacekeeper
"MX" ballistic missile retrofitted by Orbital with Taurus/Pegasus avionics
and a Taurus payload fairing, launched from Vandenberg AFB SLC 8 with Hypersonic
Test Vehicle (HTV), a small lifting body designed to skim and steer in the
upper atmosphere. The DARPA payload was expected to dive into the Pacific
Ocean near Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
|