Yuri 3H
Launch Failure
Liftoff Time (GMT)
23:30:00
Thursday April 18, 1991
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Mission Details
Launch Notes
RSO destroyed the rocket at T+441 seconds. Due to management schedule and cost pressure during the postflight analysis, engineers made a quick but wrong conclusion that one Centaur engine failed to start due to debris lodged in the LH2 turbopump.
Yuri 3H
Yuri, also known as Broadcasting Satellite or BS, was a series of Japanese direct broadcast satellites.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
1 Payload
Rocket
Launch Site
Stats
Atlas I
2nd
Mission
1st
Mission of 1991
1991
30th
Orbital launch attempt