The Orbital Sciences launch of a Minotaur booster carrying the US Air Force's Picosat and NASA Starshine 3 payloads from Vandenberg AFB, California, has been substituted by a Lockheed Martin Athena 1 flight originating from Alaska's Kodiak Island.
Source: Flight International
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