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DMSP-5D-F5

Rocket launch

by USA

Launch time15 Jul 198002:22 UTC

failure

Orbit: LEO

Serial number: Thor 304

Final flight of the Long Tank Thor. Failure attributed to faulty connection between second and third stages, resulting in third stage not receiving electrical power.

Rocket ThorDSV-2U

launched from Vandenberg AFB, SLC-10WUSA

Payloads

NamePurposeMassComment
DMSP-5D-F5Military weather satellite--