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Minotaur IV | ORS-5

ORS-5

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 26 Aug 2017, 06:04 am UTC

Rocket: Minotaur IV (Minotaur)

Provider: Orbital ATK

Mission

Type: Government/Top Secret

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 46, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Also known as SensorSat, the Operationally Responsive Space 5 (ORS-5) will perform surveillance on geostationary (GEO) satellites. The craft will provide a stopgap for the existing space based surveillance system (SBSS), since full replacements are not expected until after 2020. With a mass of approximately 100kg the solar powered craft will operate in low earth orbit at an altitude of 600km.