{"id":1052,"date":"2011-06-30T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-06-30T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:32:12","slug":"minotaur-1-ors-1-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Minotaur-1\/ORS-1 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\"><object width=\"580\" height=\"450\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/24xC-QwEiiM?version=3&#038;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/24xC-QwEiiM?version=3&#038;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"580\" height=\"450\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket lifted off with ORS-1 satellite from NASA\\&#8217;s Launch Range at the Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. ORS-1 is a Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space Office satellite.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We are very pleased with the results of this evening\u2019s flight of the Minotaur I rocket, and are proud to be able to support the Department of Defense\u2019s important work in the area of Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) systems,&#8221;<\/i> said Mr. Ron Grabe, Orbital\u2019s Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Launch Systems Group. <i>&#8220;Following this successful<br \/>\nlaunch, our Minotaur launch team\u2019s focus will shift to the Minotaur IV vehicle, which is scheduled to conduct two launches later this year, including the HTV-2b mission for DARPA and the TacSat-4 mission for the Air Force.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbital.com\/spacelaunch\/minotaur\/\">Read more about Minotaur launch vehicle&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket lifted off with ORS-1 satellite from NASA&#8217;s Launch Range at the Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. ORS-1 is a Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space Office satellite.<i>We are very pleased with the results of this evening\u2019s flight of the Minotaur I rocket, and are proud to be able to support the D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}