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Orbital Set To Launch NASA’s LADEE Lunar Orbiter

Friday, September 6th, 2013

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Orbital Sciences [ORB] Friday night is scheduled to launch NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft aboard its new Minotaur V rocket, according to a company statement. The launch is scheduled to take place at approximately 11:27 p.m. EDT from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia. LADEE will mark the first lunar launch from Wallops Island and Orbital’s first Minotaur rocket launch of a payload that will travel beyond low earth orbit (LEO). The support gantry for…

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