Space Services Inc. Conestoga 1620 Meteor SM
Conestoga 1620
Status
Failure
Date
23 OCT 1995
22:03
Launch Provider
Space Services Inc.
Launch Pad
Launch Area 0 A
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Mission Overview
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.
Rocket
Conestoga 1620
Mission Type
Planetary Science
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Stages
4
Livestream
Not availableRocket Details
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.