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Minotaur | NROL-8
Minotaur C
Oct 3, 1998, 10:04 AM UTC
Oct 3, 1998, 10:04 AM UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Mission Details
The STEX (Space Technology Experiments) satellite carried 29 new technologies intended to result in lower cost and higher performance spacecraft for future missions.
- Type
- Government/Top Secret
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 576E
- Location
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Country
- 🇺🇸 USA
Weather at Launch
- Temp
- 13.8°C
- Wind
- 26 km/h @ 321°
- Sky
- Clear
- Source
- open-meteo-archive