NASA To Launch Minotaur Rocket Tuesday Morning at 7 a.m.

– NASA will launch Northrop Grumman’s Minotaur 1 rocket into space Tuesday morning from the Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

The rocket carrying three national security payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office, is scheduled for launch at 7 a.m. from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0B on Wallops Island. The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise is providing the launch services for this mission.

This mission, named NROL-111, will be the third small launch USSF mission and the NRO’s second dedicated launch from Wallops in the last 12 months.

The launch may be visible, weather-permitting, to residents throughout the mid-Atlantic region and possibly the East Coast of the United States.

The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will not be open for this launch.

Viewing locations on Chincoteague Island include Robert Reed Park on Main Street or Beach Road spanning the area between Chincoteague and Assateague islands

Live coverage of the mission countdown is scheduled to begin at 6:30 a.m. on the Wallops YouTube site.

Launch updates will be available via the Wallops Facebook and Twitter sites.