launched fromUSA

ITOS-B

Failure
OCT 21197111:32:00 UTC

2nd stage oxidizer leak starting at T+20 seconds. The attitude control system ran out of propellant trying to correct the stage's flight path and the launch vehicle reentered the atmosphere and broke up above the Arctic Circle.

launched fromSLC-2EVandenberg

aboardDelta N6Delta 86intoLEO

Payload

ITOS-B

Weather Satellite