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Air Force Readies ORS-5 Space-Tracking Satellite For Aug. 25 Launch

By Marc Selinger

Friday, August 18th, 2017

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Air Force Readies ORS-5 Space-Tracking Satellite For Aug. 25 Launch

Engineers stand in front of the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS)-5 satellite in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory clean room in Lexington, Mass. (Photo courtesy of MIT Lincoln Lab)

The U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office has completed a flight readiness review for the ORS-5 space-tracking satellite, keeping the mission on track for an Aug. 25 launch, the service announced Aug. 18.Built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, ORS-5 is slated to lift off on an Orbital ATK [OA] Minotaur IV launch vehicle from Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. A four-hour launch window opens at 11:15 p.m. Eastern time.ORS-5,…

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