Launched the U.S. Navy's experimental TacSat-4 satellite from Kodiak Island, testing UHF communications for mobile users with handheld radios; marked the maiden flight of the Minotaur IV+ variant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 460 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Minotaur IV+ flight
- Date and time
- 27 September 2011, 15:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Minotaur IV+
- Builder
- OATK
- Launch site
- Launch Pad 1, Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2011-052
- Launches in 2011
- 55th of 84
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