Status
Failure
Eutelsat 2F5 & Türksat 1A
Mon Jan 24, 1994 21:37 UTC
Third stage turbopump malfunction. Flight V63.
Rocket
Mission Details
Eutelsat 2F5
Eutelsat 2 F5 is a communications satellite of the Eutelsat constellation. It was destroyed because of the failure of the launch.
Türksat 1A
Türksat 1A was a Turkish communications satellite as part of a project to form an instant network with two geosynchronous satellites supervised by the companies Türksat A.Ş. in Turkey and Aérospatiale of France.
Turkey's first spacecraft in its space program, Türksat 1A was launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane-44LP H10+ launch vehicle, along with the French satellite Eutelsat 2F5, in a dual-payload launch on January 24, 1994, at 21:37:00 UTC from ELA-2 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. It failed to reach the orbit and fell into the ocean due to a malfunction of the launch vehicle's last stage 12 minutes and 12 seconds after lift-off.