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Northrop Grumman readies for maiden Minotaur IV launch from MARS - NASASpaceflight.com

Northrop Grumman readies for maiden Minotaur IV launch from MARS - NASASpaceflight.com

Northrop Grumman readies for maiden Minotaur IV launch from MARS - NASASpaceflight.com
Jul 09, 2020 57 secs

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The classified mission from the National Reconnaissance Office, known as NROL-129, will launch sometime within a launch window that opens at 09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC) on Wednesday, 15 July 2020

After those checkouts are done, Northrop Grumman takes over, routing cables, performing tests of their own, adding ordinance, and doing checkouts on the Thrust Vector Control system before the motors are shipped to their launch location

Our next launch is a Minotaur IV lifting off July 15 from @VCSFA_MARS Pad 0B at Wallops

The final major outstanding pre-launch milestone will come tomorrow, Friday 10 July, when the entire launch team with Northrop Grumman and the NRO will gather on console and perform a full mission dress rehearsal

For the launch of NROL-129, Northrop Grumman will be using the Mission Operations Control Center, or MOCC, at Wallops.  The facility made its debut for launch operations last year, and has already been used for previous Antares launches, including this year’s NG-13 Antares/Cygnus launch

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Northrop Grumman is socially distancing their launch operations by using more than one control room

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