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ITOS-B

Rocket launch

by USA

Launch time21 Oct 197111:32 UTC

failure

Orbit: LEO

Serial number: Delta 86

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.

Rocket DeltaN6

launched from Vandenberg AFB, SLC-2EUSA

Payloads

NamePurposeMassComment
ITOS-BWeather Satellite--