NOSS-4 - rocket launch details

Launch time9 Dec 198007:18 UTC

failure

Orbit: LEO

Serial number: 68E

Loss of turbopump lubricant caused B-1 engine shut down just prior to booster jettison; vehicle flipped around 180° and descended back towards Earth, breaking up as it fell.

Mission
Rocket
Payloads

Rocket AtlasE/F-MSD

launched from Vandenberg AFB, SLC-3WUSA

Payloads

Name	Purpose	Mass	Comment
NOSS-4	ELINT	-	-

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Payloads

Rocket AtlasE/F-MSD