{"id":23335,"date":"2020-07-16T01:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/watch-first-minotaur-iv-rocket-launch-from-virginia-space-coast-for-space-force\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T01:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:24:48","slug":"watch-first-minotaur-iv-rocket-launch-from-virginia-space-coast-for-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/watch-first-minotaur-iv-rocket-launch-from-virginia-space-coast-for-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: First Minotaur IV rocket launch from Virginia Space Coast for Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Northrop Grumman\u2019s 78-foot-tall Minotaur IV expendable launch system is lifting off from NASA\u2019s Wallops Island flight facility in Virginia. The launch is the first Minotaur IV launch from Virginia\u2019s Space Coast and the first National Reconnaissance Office launch using the Minotaur IV system.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Minotaur IV launch is also the first use of the expendable launch system since August 2017. The system has been used for a total of seven launches since April 2010, and one to two additional launches are already planned. NASA says the next launch from Wallops Flight Facility will be sometime in mid-August.<\/p>\n

Minotaur rockets are created using decommissioned MX Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles created in the late 80s and early 90s.<\/p>\n

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The NROL-129 mission will carry four
payloads designed, built and operated
by the agency and will launch aboard a
Northrop Grumman Minotaur IV rocket NET
July 15, 2020 from Mid-Atlantic Regional
Spaceport Pad 0B. NROL-129 supports
NRO\u2019s overall national security mission to
provide intelligence data to United States\u2019
senior policy makers, the Intelligence
Community and Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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