WALLOPS ISLAND, VA. – An U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the Department of Defense’s Operationally Responsive Space office’s ORS-1 satellite is scheduled for launch June 28 from NASA’s Launch Range at the Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
The backup launch days are June 29 through July 10.
ORS-1 is the Operationally Responsive Space Office’s first operational satellite. Rapidly developing and fielding ORS-1 is an important step to demonstrate the capability to meet emerging and persistent war-fighter needs on operationally relevant timelines.
Requests from the media for accreditation to attend the launch are now being accepted. Requests may be sent to rebecca.h.powell@nasa.gov by June 23.
Further information on the mission is available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/missions/ORS.html
The satellite is scheduled for launch between 8:28 and 11:28 p.m. EDT on June 28, on an Air Force four-stage Minotaur I space launch vehicle contracted through Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Launch Systems Group. The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Development and Test Wing has overall mission management responsibility.
