[Launch Alert] Vandenberg Launches Minotaur I

[Launch Alert]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                      Ventura County, California
                   launch-alert-editor at earthlink.net
                          www.spacearchive.info
		       
                                2011 February 6 (Sunday) 05:40 PST
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                    VANDENBERG LAUNCHES MINOTAUR I
                     Vandenberg AFB News Release
                           2011 February 6

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A Minotaur I rocket was launched
from Space Launch Complex-8 here at 4:26 a.m. (PST) Feb. 6. 
	
The rocket carried a national security payload for the National
Reconnaissance Office.

Col. Richard Boltz, 30th Space Wing commander, was the launch
decision authority.

"I am extremely proud of the large group of professionals that came
together to launch this rocket," said Colonel Boltz. "The 30th Space
Wing and its mission partners have a long history of successful
Minotaur launches and we are proud to continue that history again here
today."

The launch was a combined effort of more than 200 personnel from the
30th Space Wing, NRO, Orbital Sciences Corporation, and the Space and
Missile Systems Center.	

The 30th Space Wing's next launch is a Taurus XL rocket for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration scheduled for Feb. 23.

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