1998 · Orbital Sciences Corporation
NROL-8 (STEX)
successMinotaur | NROL-8
The STEX (Space Technology Experiments) satellite carried 29 new technologies intended to result in lower cost and higher performance spacecraft for future missions.
Overview
- Date / time
- October 3, 1998 at 10:04 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 576E
- Mission
- NROL-8 (STEX)
- Mission type
- Government/Top Secret
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit