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Test flight vehicle

Rocket launch

by USA

Launch time8 May 196219:49 UTC

failure

Orbit: Suborbital

Serial number: AC-1

First launch of the Atlas-Centaur vehicle. Centaur insulation panel separated prematurely, resulting in LH2 tank rupture at T+53 seconds and subsequent complete launch vehicle destruction.

Rocket AtlasCentaur-A LV-3C

launched from Cape Canaveral, LC-36AUSA

Payloads

NamePurposeMassComment
Test flight vehicle---