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Rocket: Minotaur 1
Payload: ORS 1
Date: June 29, 2011
Time: 11:09 p.m. EDT (0309 GMT)
Site: Pad 0B, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Va.

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Minotaur soars with military payload

A Minotaur 1 rocket blasted off from the Virginia coast at 11:09 p.m. EDT Wednesday with a tactical spy satellite for the U.S. military.

Photo credit: Thom Baur/Orbital Sciences Corp.
 

Photo credit: Thom Baur/Orbital Sciences Corp.
 

Photo credit: Thom Baur/Orbital Sciences Corp.
 

Photo credit: NASA/Wallops Flight Facility
 

Photo credit: NASA/Wallops Flight Facility
 

Photo credit: NASA/Wallops Flight Facility