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		Rocket: Minotaur 4 Payload: STP-S26 Date: Nov. 19, 2010 Time: 8:25 p.m. EST (4:25 p.m. Alaska time) Site: LP-1, Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska Mission Status Center Launch timeline graphic Photos: Minotaur lifts off Photos: Final countdown Photos: Countdown sim Photos: Satellite gallery Our Minotaur archive

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Minotaur put through countdown rehearsal

The service structure at the Kodiak Launch Complex retracted away from the Minotaur 4 rocket Monday, exposing the booster during a simulated countdown to practice procedures for Friday's scheduled liftoff with seven small satellites for the U.S. Air Force, NASA and university students.

Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

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