Launch status
Launch status information for space mission ‘Minotaur I | NROL-111’.
Success
Status: Launch Successful
Class: normal
Launch T0: June 15, 2021, 1:35 p.m.
Timezone: America/New_York
Launch authority
Details about the the rocket, its target orbit and the launch pad location.
Mission |
NROL-111 (LEO) |
|---|---|
Launcher |
Northrop Grumman Space Systems |
Rocket |
Minotaur I |
Location |
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA |
Pad |
Launch Area 0 B |
Type |
Government/Top Secret |
Orbit |
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) |
Satellites on-board
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Launch statistics
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Orbital Launch
#6081
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Location Launch
#70
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Pad Launch
#8
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Agency Launch
#10
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Orbital Launch
#55
Year 2021
Location Launch
#2
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Pad Launch
#1
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Agency Launch
#3
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Latest news about the launch
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Northrop Grumman launches second classified US government mission in two days with NROL-111
Northrop Grumman launched three national security payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on the NROL-111 mission. The company used their solid propellant Minotaur I rocket to place the payloads into a low Earth orbit with a liftoff from Pad...
Photos: Surplus missile motor from 1960s launches classified NRO satellites
A Cold War-era missile motor cast with solid propellant in 1966 fired up for the first time Wednesday to catapult a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 1 rocket off a launch pad in Virginia with three small spacecraft for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency.
Cold-War-era missile launches three modern-day spy satellites
The small rockets are not cheap, but they are effective.
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