Maiden flight of Orbital Sciences' Minotaur I, launched from Vandenberg's SLC-8 carrying JAWSAT, a joint Air Force Academy/Weber State University satellite that deployed four hitchhiker microsatellites: FalconSat-1, OCSE, OPAL and ASUSat.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 123 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 12 Minotaur I flights
- Date and time
- 27 January 2000, 03:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Minotaur I
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 8, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2000-004
- Launches in 2000
- 4th of 85
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