Orbital Minotaur I - Manual (Page 85)

Minotaur I User’s Guide Section 8.0 – Optional Enhanced Capabilities
Minotaur I Lite provides a larger volume and greater stack height to the suborbital payload. For
clearances to fairing deployment components and to maintain proven fairing deployment dynamics, a
simple aluminum adapter cylinder is used between the 3/4 interstage and the avionics section. The
adapter cylinder is the only new structure; the electrical and ordnance designs above and below remain
unchanged from the standard Minotaur I. Payload and launch vehicle environments remain enveloped by
previously established and well defined Minotaur I levels. Minotaur I Lite maintains the same high level of
payload access, power, discrete, and communication interfaces as the standard Minotaur I LV. Relatively
minor design, model, analysis, and procedure updates ensure Minotaur I Lite maintains the high
standards of the Minotaur family of vehicles.
Figure 8.18-2. Minotaur I-Lite Replaces the Orion 38 with a Low Cost and Risk Simple Aluminum
Cylinder
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