Launch Failure

Liftoff Time (GMT)

21:34:54

Thursday January 21, 1965

Mission Details

Launch Notes

PU valve set wrong, high fuel consumption led to premature sustainer cutoff; satellite deployment failed. First launch of Atlas-D OV1.

Rocket

Retired
Atlas-D OV1

Active 1965 to 1967


Liftoff Thrust

1,880 Kilonewtons

Stages

2

Launch Site

LC-576B3

Vandenberg SFB, California, USA

Fastest Turnaround

105 days 16 hours

Stats

Atlas-OV1


1st

Mission

1st

Mission of 1965

1965


4th

Orbital launch attempt