Orbital Sciences Corporation

STEP 0 & DARPASAT

Minotaur C

SUCCESS
Success

Sunday, March 13, 1994 · 22:32 UTC

Mission

/01

STEP 0 (Space Test Experiment Platform 0) was a technology demonstration satellite flown under the Space Test Program (STP). DARPASAT (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Satellite) was designed to demonstrate advanced technology. Ball Aerospace designed, fabricated, integrated, and tested the spacecraft bus, and integrated two government-supplied payloads.

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Minotaur C

Variant: C

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 576E

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

34.739° N, 120.619° W

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