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Minotaur I | XSS-11

XSS-11

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 11 Apr 2005, 01:35 pm UTC

Rocket: Minotaur I (Minotaur)

Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation

Mission

Type: Test Flight

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 8, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

USA-165 or XSS-11 (Experimental Satellite System-11) is a small, washing-machine-sized, low-cost spacecraft developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate to test technology for proximity operations.