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The Joint Air Force-Weber State University Satellite is an American military mini-satellite launched aboard a Minotaur rocket on January 27, 2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.[1] After its own launch, JAWSAT deployed four microsatellites: FALCONSAT, OCSE, OPAL, and ASUSat.[2] JAWSAT also deployed NASA's Plasma Experiment Satellite Test (PEST).