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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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Launch story

Photos of liftoff

Flight preview

Launch timeline

Visibility map

Photos: Minotaur poised for launch from Virginia

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Minotaur launch visiblity map

The launch of the Minotaur 1 rocket with an Air Force tactical imaging satellite could be visible across a wide swatch of the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, including metro areas like New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. This map shows where the launch could be visible.

Photo credit: NASA Wallops Flight Facility