Maiden flight of the Taurus rocket (later marketed as Minotaur C), lofting DARPA's DARPASAT technology-demonstration satellite and the Air Force's STEP Mission 0 (TAOS) satellite from Vandenberg AFB to test autonomous navigation and a standardized satellite bus.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 700 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 4 Minotaur C flights
- Date and time
- 13 March 1994, 22:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Minotaur C
- Builder
- OATK
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 576E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1994-017
- Launches in 1994
- 18th of 93
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas