JCIC-DIP-09-011: PROVISION IN ADVANCE OF DATA ON

S E C R E T STATE 099779

SIPDIS, GENEVA FOR JCIC

E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/23/2029
TAGS: PARM KACT START US RS UP BO KZ
SUBJECT: JCIC-DIP-09-011: PROVISION IN ADVANCE OF DATA ON
MINOTAUR IV SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE

Classified By: Jerry A. Taylor, Director, VCI/SI.
Reason: 1.4(b) and (d).


1. This is an action request. See paragraph 4 below.


2. (U) BACKGROUND: In Joint Compliance and Inspection
Commission (JCIC) Joint Statement Number 21, the Parties
committed to provide, in advance, information on ICBMs and
SLBMs used to deliver objects into the upper atmosphere or
space, including space launch vehicles (SLVs) that
incorporate the first stage of an ICBM or SLBM. Such
information is to include technical data, development
plans, and photographs or, until such ICBMs and SLBMs,
including such space launch vehicles, are available to be
photographed, schematic drawings. JCIC Joint Statement
Number 31 specifies the minimum information that shall be
provided pursuant to the aforementioned obligation
contained in JCIC Joint Statement Number 21.


3. (U) The United States is about to conduct the first
launch of an SLV, designated the Minotaur IV. Joint
Statement 31 specifies that SLV data shall be provided to
the other Parties no later than 10 days prior to the first
time the SLV is assembled at a facility other than a
production facility, including a space launch facility.
The Minotaur IV SLV that incorporates the first stage of a
Peacekeeper ICBM will be assembled at the Vandenberg Air
Force Base, California, Test Range.


4. (U) ACTION REQUEST: Drawing on the above background
as needed, embassies Moscow, Kyiv, and Astana are
requested to provide the paper in paragraph 5 below to
appropriate host government officials, under cover of a
letter signed by an appropriate embassy official, not
later than September 28. Washington will provide each
embassy a courtesy Russian-language translation of the
paper. An associated schematic drawing of the Minotaur IV
SLV will be emailed to capitals separately, and should be
provided to these officials at the same time. Washington
requests that each embassy confirm delivery of this paper,
the name and office of the official to whom it was
delivered, the date of delivery, and any comment or
reaction provided at that time. The text in paragraph 5
will be sent directly to the Belarusion Government via a
service message transmitted by the U.S. Nuclear Risk
Reduction Center.


5. (S) Begin text of paper:


I. Development plan for a space launch vehicle that
incorporates a first stage of a Peacekeeper ICBM

The Minotaur IV space launch vehicle incorporates the
first stage of a Peacekeeper ICBM. Orbital Sciences
Corporation, under a contract with the U.S. government,
will provide launch and technical support for the
operation of the Minotaur IV space launch vehicle.

The Minotaur IV SLV has four stages and an assembled
length of 23.88 meters. The Minotaur IV space launch
vehicle will be assembled at the Vandenberg Air Force
Base, California, Test Range. The Minotaur IV space
launch vehicle will be launched from a soft site launcher
located at a space launch facility declared under the
START Treaty. An associated schematic drawing of the
Minotaur IV space launch vehicle is attached to this
paper.


II. Technical data for the Minotaur IV space launch
vehicle that incorporates a first stage of a Peacekeeper
ICBM:


A. Name or designation of the space launch vehicle:
Minotaur IV


B. Type of ICBM or SLBM whose first stage is incorporated
into the space launch vehicle: Peacekeeper ICBM


C. Total number of stages: 4


D. For an upper stage of the SLV that is an ICBM or SLBM
stage, the type and stage of that ICBM or SLBM:
Peacekeeper second stage, Peacekeeper third stage


E. For space launch vehicles not contained in launch
canisters, total length of assembled space launch vehicle
with or without payload fairing: 23.88 meters with payload
fairing


F. For space launch vehicles contained in launch
canisters, total length of space launch vehicle as a unit
with launch canister, with or without payload fairing: Not
applicable


G. For space launch vehicles that are transported in
separate launch canister sections, length of launch
canister sections: Not applicable


H. Length and diameter of launch canister, if applicable:
Not applicable


I. Description of launcher type/launch method: Soft Site
Launcher


J. Calculated value, for reference purposes, of the weight
of the fully-fueled space launch vehicle without payload:
86322 kilograms.


End text of paper.
CLINTON