[Launch Alert] Minotaur IV Launched

[Brian Webb]

FIRST MINOTAUR IV LITE LAUNCHES FROM VANDENBERG AFB 

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Team Vandenberg launched the first
Minotaur IV Lite launch vehicle at 4 p.m. April 22 from Space Launch
Complex-8 here. 

The rocket launched the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Falcon
Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2.

The 30th Space Wing commander, Col. David Buck, was the launch decision
authority.

The Minotaur family of launch vehicles are provided via the
Orbital/Suborbital Program 2 and managed by the U.S. Air Force Space and
Missile Systems Center, Space Development and Test Wing's Launch Test
Squadron located at Kirtland AFB, N.M.