Minotaur IV launched the 140 kg ORS-5 (SensorSat) space-surveillance satellite from Cape Canaveral's LC-46, the first vertical orbital launch there by Orbital ATK. Built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, SensorSat monitors objects in the geosynchronous belt from a 600 km equatorial orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 119 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 5 Minotaur IV flights
- Date and time
- 26 August 2017, 06:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Minotaur IV
- Builder
- OATK
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 46, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2017-050
- Launches in 2017
- 53rd of 90
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