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NROL-8 (STEX)
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 3 Oct 1998, 10:04 am UTC
Rocket: Minotaur (Minotaur)
Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation
Mission
Type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 576E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
The STEX (Space Technology Experiments) satellite carried 29 new technologies intended to result in lower cost and higher performance spacecraft for future missions.