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Vanguard TV3 Backup

Rocket launch

by USA

Launch time5 Feb 1958

failure

57 seconds after launch, control of the vehicle was lost and it failed to achieve orbit.

Rocket Vanguard

launched from Cape Canaveral, LC-18AUSA

Payloads

NamePurposeMassComment
Vanguard 1Bexperimental satellite1.36 kg-