Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company.
A Northrop Grumman Corporation #Minotaur rocket carrying three national security payloads for National Reconnaissance Office is scheduled to launch June 15 at 7 a.m. EDT. The Minotaur rocket with the NROL-111 payload will launch from Launch Pad-0B at Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA and travel to a low Earth orbit (LEO)
The rocket carrying three national security payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), is scheduled for launch at 7a.m. June 15, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s (MARS) Pad 0B on Wallops Island. The U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise is providing the launch services for this mission.
This mission, named NROL-111, will be the third small launch USSF mission and the NRO’s second dedicated launch from Wallops in the last 12 months.
The launch may be visible, weather permitting, to residents throughout the mid-Atlantic region and possibly the East Coast of the United States.
The Minotaur I, or just Minotaur is an American expendable launch system derived from the Minuteman II missile. It is used to launch small satellites for the US Government and is a member of the Minotaur family of rockets produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation
The Minotaur I is the follow-on to the Orbital Sciences' Taurus (later re-named the "Minotaur-C") launch vehicle, combining the original Taurus's booster stage with a second stage from a Minuteman missile.
Sometimes called the banana-peel rocket, Minotaur I has a yellow thermal blanket that peels off like a banana just after liftoff. The thermal blanket is attached to ground support equipment and the launch tower via guidelines. When Minotaur I launches, the thermal blanket is peeled off the side since it is secured to the solid ground structures. The thermal protection blanket is needed because Minotaur normally launches in a silo, where the climate can be controlled.
Minotaur I rockets consist of the M55A1 first stage and SR19 second stage of a decommissioned Minuteman missile. The Orion 50XL and Orion 38, from the Pegasus rocket, are used as third and fourth stages. A HAPS (Hydrazine Auxiliary Propulsion System) upper stage can also be flown if greater precision is needed, or the rocket needs to be able to maneuver to deploy multiple payloads. It can place up to 580 kilograms (1,280 lb) of payload into a 185-kilometer (115 mi) low Earth orbit at 28.5 degrees of inclination.
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