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    The Minotaur is a family of United States solid fuel launch vehicles derived from converted Minuteman and Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles...
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    and is a member of the Minotaur family of rockets produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman). The Minotaur I is the follow-on to the...
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    used by the Minotaur family of rockets. After a six years pause, the rocket successfully returned to flight in 2017 as Minotaur-C. The Minotaur-C's first...
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  • the Minotaur family of rockets produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation, and is used for long range suborbital launches with heavy payloads. Minotaur III...
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    November 2010). "Minotaur rocket poised to send research to new heights". Spaceflight Now. "Orbital Successfully Launches First Minotaur IV Rocket for U.S. Air...
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    Minotaur V is an American expendable launch system derived from the Minotaur IV, itself a derivative of the LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM. It was developed...
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  • Minotaur may also refer to: Minotaur (rocket family), an American rocket designed to launch small satellites HMS Minotaur, a historical ship name of the...
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    Minotaur II rockets consist of the M55A1 first stage and SR19AJ1 second stage of a decommissioned Minuteman missile. The third stage varies depending...
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    the Minotaur rocket family itself, SLC-8 has seen little use since the early 2010s. As of May 2024, nine rockets - six Minotaur I and three Minotaur IV...
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    of this kind. Comparison of orbital launchers families Dnipro (anti-air missile) Minotaur (rocket family), US launch vehicles made from converted ICBMs...
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    Retrieved 2 November 2017. "Taurus / Minotaur-C". space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2 November 2017. "Space Pioneer rockets". Retrieved January 4, 2023. Jones...
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    a privately developed rocket into orbit, the Pegasus on April 5, 1990. Orbital subsequently developed the Minotaur rocket family. Orbital joined SpaceX...
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  • The Star is a family of US solid-propellant rocket motors originally developed by Thiokol and used by many space propulsion and launch vehicle stages....
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  • List of orbital launch systems (category Lists of rockets)
    Electron (Rocket Lab) (New Zealand/United States company) Minotaur (Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) Minotaur I Minotaur IV Minotaur V Minotaur-C Pegasus...
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    a Star 48BV solid rocket motor and would be used for higher energy orbits. The Orion 38 is used on the Minotaur and Pegasus rockets as an upper stage...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
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    120 motors used in the Minotaur-C launch vehicles for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory and Glory satellites. The main solid rocket boosters (SRB-A) of the...
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    M-V (redirect from MV-5 rocket)
    M-V rocket, also called M-5 or Mu-5, was a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites. It was a member of the Mu family of rockets...
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  • Manufacturing Minotaur - Employing a combination of U.S. government-supplied rocket motors and Orbital's commercial launch technologies, the Minotaur family of launchers...
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    "Taurus / Minotaur-C". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2023-12-10. "Minotaur Rocket". Northrop Grumman. Retrieved 2023-12-10. Krebs, Gunter. "Minotaur-1 (OSP-SLV)"...
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  • launch systems "OHSUMI | Spacecraft". "Spaceflight Now | Minotaur Launch Report | Minotaur rocket poised to send research to new heights". "10.0 Integration...
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    Shavit 2 (redirect from Shavit (rocket))
    maximum payload weight. ASLV Minotaur Mu Pegasus Start-1 VLS-1 SSLV Spaceflight portal Comparison of orbital launchers families Comparison of orbital launch...
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    Vector of Advanced Generation, meaning "Advanced generation European carrier rocket") is an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace jointly developed...
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  • The RX rocket family (Roket Eksperimental, English: Experimental Rocket) is a series of solid-fuel rockets developed by the Indonesian National Institute...
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    List of Vega launches (category Pages using infobox rocket with unknown parameters)
    altitude of 700 km. The rocket, named after the star Vega, is a single-body launcher (no strap-on boosters) with three solid rocket stages: the P80 first...
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    List of NRO launches (category Lists of rocket launches)
    more Minotaur flight to deliver another classified payload to orbit. That mission, known as NROL-174, will use a Minotaur 4 rocket, the larger Minotaur variant...
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    surplus military rocket motors, it is only used for U.S. Government and government-sponsored payloads.[why?] A third vehicle is dubbed Minotaur IV despite containing...
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    A multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A tandem...
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  • 2 September 2021. "We're basically on contract for three Minotaur launches. One is a Minotaur IV, which looks like it's going to be launched from Vandenberg...
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  • Technology (SAST). The rocket was developed in the 2000s, and made its maiden flight in 2015. As one of the new generation rocket family, the Long March 6...
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