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ICBM test

Rocket launch

by USA

Launch time11 Oct 196019:15 UTC

failure

Orbit: Suborbital

Serial number: 3E

First Atlas E launch. Sustainer hydraulic rise-off disconnect failed due to radiated heat, causing loss of hydraulic fluid and sustainer shutdown T+40 seconds. Missile tumbled following staging and broke up at T+154 seconds.

Rocket AtlasE

launched from Cape Canaveral, LC-13USA

Payloads

NamePurposeMassComment
ICBM test---