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Minotaur IV | EWS OD-1

EWS OD-1

To Be Determined

Launch Details

Date: 31 Dec 2026, 12:00 am UTC

Rocket: Minotaur IV (Minotaur)

Provider: Northrop Grumman Space Systems

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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

Mission Description

The Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System (EWS) Operational Demonstration-1 (OD-1) is a weather satellite for the United States Space Force. It is a prototype satellite made by General Atomics that will be place in LEO for a three-year demonstration mission of new EO/IR sensor technologies to various US military branches, and to act as a stop-gap for Defense Department needs for weather data.