A Minotaur I launched the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's XSS-11 microsatellite from Vandenberg AFB to demonstrate autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations around other space objects.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 125 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 12 Minotaur I flights
- Date and time
- 11 April 2005, 13:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Minotaur I
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 8, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2005-011
- Launches in 2005
- 11th of 56
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