Launched the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat-2 responsive-space technology demonstrator as primary payload from Wallops Island, with NASA's GeneSat-1 biological CubeSat riding along into low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 373 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 12 Minotaur I flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 2006, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Minotaur I
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Launch Area 0 B, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Technology
- International designator
- 2006-058
- Launches in 2006
- 61st of 66
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