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Lift-off of the Minotaur I ORS-1 launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) 0B pad at Wallops Island, Virginia.

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility was supporting the launch of the Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space Office’s ORS-1 satellite aboard a U.S. Air Force Minotaur I rocket. This was the fourth Minotaur I rocket launched from Wallops Flight Facility since December 2006.