A family of small American launch vehicles built partly from decommissioned Minuteman and Peacekeeper ballistic missile stages under a U.S. Air Force program, flown for government-sponsored small satellites at low cost using surplus military hardware.
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Vehicle ClassLight-lift solid-fuel expendable launch vehicle 1 Manufacturer First Flight Date StatusOperational, flown periodically for U.S. government small-satellite missions. 1 Connections
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Source Minotaur (rocket family) (Wikipedia)
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1. Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://astronautix.com/m/minotaur.html
Minotaur was developed for the US Air Force's Orbital/Suborbital Program (OSP) as a low-cost, four-stage Space Launch Vehicle (SLV) using a combination of government-supplied surplus Minuteman II ICBM motors and proven Orbital space launch technologies.
- Operated By: Northrop Grumman
Minotaur (rocket family) (Wikipedia)
In Group: Commercial American Launch Vehicles, Lead sentence
The Minotaur is a family of United States solid-fuel launch vehicles derived from retired Minuteman and Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).
Has Vehicle Class: Small-Lift Launch Vehicle, Lead sentence
The Minotaur family consists of four primary variants: the Minotaur I, used for launching small satellites into low Earth orbit; the Minotaur II, used primarily as a suborbital target vehicle; the Minotaur IV, a small-lift orbital launch vehicle; and the Minotaur V and Minotaur VI, capable of higher-energy missions including geostationary transfer orbit and trans-lunar trajectories.
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