NASA launched a Department of Defense satellite Wednesday from the Wallops Flight Facility at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
The Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket left the spaceport pad at 11:09 p.m.
The rocket is carrying the first operational satellite for the Department of Defense's Operationally Responsive Space Office. The Minotaur 1 rocket is about 70 feet tall and 5 feet wide.
Depending on cloud cover along the Atlantic Coast, the launch could be viewed from southern New York to North Carolina. It also may have been visible as far west as West Virginia and western Pennsylvania.
It is the fourth Minotaur 1 rocket launched from Wallops Flight Facility and the spaceport since December 2006.
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