Minuteman 2

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Minuteman 2

Family: Missile. Country: USA. Status: Hardware.

US ICBM.

Specifications

Development Cost $: 1,380.60 million. in 1962 average dollars. Total Development Built: 48. Total Production Built: 620. Flyaway Unit Cost $: 1.79 million. in 1971 unit dollars.

Minuteman 2 Chronology

1964 Sep 24 -

Minuteman 2 test launch.
First launch

1965 Aug 18 -

Minuteman 2 test launch.
First silo launch

1966 Dec 13 -

Minuteman 2 test launch.
First Emergency Rocket Communications Satellite test

1967 Apr 17 -

Minuteman 2 test launch.
Last Emergency Rocket Communications Satellite test

1997 Jan 16 -

Minuteman 2 test launch.
RSLP (MSLS) IFT-1

1997 Jun 23 -

Minuteman 2 test launch.
RSLP (MSLS) IFT-1A

1998 Jan 15 -

Minuteman 2 test launch.
RSLP (MSLS) IFT-2

1999 Oct 3 - - 02:01 GMT. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Complex: LF03.

Minuteman 2 IFT-3
Minuteman launched an MSLS target vehicle for the EKV anti-ballistic missile interceptor launched from Kwajalein Atoll.

Bibliography:

17 - Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960, NASA, 1961. HTML when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html
39 - Gunston, Bill,, Rockets and Missiles, Salamander, London, 1979.
281 - Nicholas, Ted G., U.S. Missile Data Book, 1983, Seventh Edition, Data Search Associates, Fountain Valley, California, 1982..

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