Conestoga 1620

In-active

Space Services Inc. ()

Oct. 23, 1995

Description

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.

Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
  • Diameter
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Conestoga 1620
  • Family
  • Variant
    1620
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Conestoga 1620
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    1179.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Space Services Inc.

Commercial
None

Space Services, Inc. of America (SSIA) is a space services company that provides star naming services as well as space burial services through its subsidiary company, Celestis.

Conestoga 1620 | Meteor SM

Space Services Inc. | United States of America
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Oct. 23, 1995, 10:03 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

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