The Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the Missile Defense Agency’s Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite was launched at 2:48 a.m., Tuesday, April 24. (Photo: NASA)
VANDENBURG AFB, CALIFORNIA: August 18, 2007—Satnews Daily—According to The Lompoc Record newspaper’s online site, the Missile Defense Agency will engage in a test that studies the exhaust plume of a missile as it blasts away from the launch center.
Costing $25 million, this test will occur early this morning between 4:00 and 7:00 a.m. with about a 15-minute window of opportunity. Studying the plume will be an orbiting Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite launched last spring from Wallops Island in Virginia last April. Instruments aboard the satellite will record the exhaust from the missile after its launch. This is the first of two such NFIRE tests that are planned for this year.
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