Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Marks-up Another Orbital Launch Success; Future Bright

A four-stage Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the ORS-1 satellite for the Department of Defense's Operationally Responsive Space Office was launched from the commercial Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport co-located upon the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on June 29, 2011. The rocket's climb to orbit was seen as far away as New York along the eastern seaboard. The next major launch from the spaceport will be the larger Taurus-2 booster test to resupply the International Space Station later this year, if all proceeds as now planned.