Launched the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite from Vandenberg for the U.S. Air Force, the inaugural orbital flight of the Minotaur IV rocket. SBSS tracks and detects other objects in orbit as part of the Space Surveillance Network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 5 Minotaur IV flights
- Date and time
- 26 September 2010, 04:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Minotaur IV
- Builder
- OATK
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 8, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2010-048
- Launches in 2010
- 50th of 74
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