Failure
Meteor SM
Planetary Science
Space Services Inc.Commercial
Conestoga 1620
LEOorbit
METEOR (Multiple Experiment Transport to Earth Orbit & Return), formerly COMET (Commercial Experiment Transporter), was a NASA program to develop a commercially available experiment transporter for microgravity experiments over longer periods.
Monday, October 23, 1995 at 10:03 PM
Mission details
Orbital Attempt
#4,024
Agency Mission
#1
Pad Launch
#1
Location Launch
#48
Launch Window
NET
Oct 23, 1995, 10:03 PM
Schedule Changes
1 update
Launch Area 0 A
LP-0A was first built for the failed Conestoga rocket program. The original launch tower was subsequently demolished in September 2008. A new pad facility was built from 2009 to 2011 for Orbital Sciences Taurus II, now renamed Antares.
Total Launches
19
Orbital Attempts
19
Fastest Turnaround
3mo 15d
Conestoga 1620 Specs
The Conestoga was a launch vehicle design funded by Space Services Inc. of America (SSIA) of Houston, Texas. Conestoga originally consisted of surplus LGM-30 Minuteman stages with additional strap-on boosters, as required for larger payloads. It was the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, but was launched only three times (once as a modified design) before the program was shut down.
LEO Capacity
1,179 kg
Reusable
No
Maiden Flight
1995
Total Launches
1
Successful
0
Failed
1
Consecutive Success
0
Maiden flight: Oct 23, 1995
Space Services Inc.
Space Services, Inc. of America (SSIA) is a space services company that provides star naming services as well as space burial services through its subsidiary company, Celestis.
Total Launches
1
Successful
0
Failed
1
Pending
0
Consecutive Success
0
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.
Timezone
America/New_York
Local Launch Time
Oct 23, 1995, 6:03 PM
Total Launches
86
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
37.9333, -75.4678