Minotaur I | XSS-11
Status: Success | Launched: Apr 11, 2005 13:35 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation (Commercial)
- Rocket: Minotaur I — Minotaur family
Mission
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.
- Type: Test Flight
- Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Site
- Pad: Space Launch Complex 8
- Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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