Minotaur Launches ORS-1 From Wallops Island

An Orbital Sciences Corp. Minotaur 1 launch vehicle orbited the Pentagon’s first Operationally Responsive Space (ORS-1) satellite late Wednesday in a launch from Wallops Island, Va., that was visible up and down the East Coast. Liftoff of the solid-fuel rocket crafted from surplus Minuteman ICBM...

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