1994 · Orbital Sciences Corporation
STEP 0 & DARPASAT
successMinotaur | STEP 0 & DARPASAT
STEP 0 (Space Test Experiment Platform 0) was a technology demonstration satellite flown under the Space Test Program (STP). DARPASAT (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Satellite) was designed to demonstrate advanced technology. Ball Aerospace designed, fabricated, integrated, and tested the spacecraft bus, and integrated two government-supplied payloads.
Overview
- Date / time
- March 13, 1994 at 10:32 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 576E
- Mission
- STEP 0 & DARPASAT
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit