Second Wallops Minotaur orbits MDA's NFIRE testbed

U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) controllers are preparing a pair of rocket-plume characterization tests later this year now that an Orbital Sciences Minotaur I solid-fuel rocket has orbited the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE). The second Minotaur I launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional...

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