For the first time in its 10-year flight history, the Minotaur IV rocket is preparing to make its inaugural launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, MARS, on Wallops Island, Virginia.

The Minotaur 1 four-stage rocket carrying the Air Force's Space Test Program Satellite-3 and 28 other CubeSats also carried a compact Autonomous Flight Safety System unit that operated in "shadow ...

WASHINGTON, July 8. /TASS/. The trials of a Minotaur II+ rocket conducted in California for the Pentagon resulted in an explosion only seconds after the launch, the press service of Vandenberg ...