Orbital Sciences Taurus 2210 debut launch from Vandenberg, deploying the US Navy's GEOSAT Follow-On (GFO) ocean-altimetry satellite along with two Orbcomm messaging satellites and a Celestis memorial spaceflight payload into a sun-synchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 450 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Minotaur-C 2210 flight
- Date and time
- 10 February 1998, 13:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Minotaur-C 2210
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 576E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1998-007
- Launches in 1998
- 8th of 82
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