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Launch Date
1/1/2020
Launch Site
MARS Pad 0B
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Launch Vehicle
Minotaur IV (Minotaur Family)
NROL-129 was the National Reconnaissance Office’s 54th launch since 1996 and its first launch on a Minotaur 4.
Northrop Grumman was awarded four OSP-3 task-order missions—NROL-111, NROL-129, NROL-174, and AFMC-1—that will launch over the next two years.
NROL-129, a National Reconnaissance Office mission, is scheduled to launch in spring 2020 on a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 from Wallops Island, Virginia.
A Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 solid propellant rocket launched the NROL-129 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office on 2020-07-15 at 9:46 a.m. Eastern from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
NROL-111 is the second of three missions the Space Force procured from Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office, with NROL-129 having launched in 2020 and NROL-174 not yet scheduled.
The NROL-129 mission launched in 2020 on a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 rocket, which is a larger vehicle than the Minotaur 1.