Lockheed Martin
Gemstar DSS-1
Athena I
FAILURE
Failure
Tuesday, August 15, 1995 · 22:30 UTC
Mission
/01The CTA GEMStar 1 (VITASAT 1) satellite partially sponsored by Volunteers In Technical Assistance (VITA) of Arlington Virginia, was launched at 2230 UTC from Vandenberg AFB on the 15-Aug-95, but a second stage failure destroyed the first flight of the Lockheed LLV-1 launch vehicle (later dubbed Athena-1).
Mission Type
Communications
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Probability
N/A
Status
Launch Failure
Vehicle & Pad
/02Rocket
Athena I
Variant: I
Launch Pad
Space Launch Complex 6
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
34.581° N, 120.626° W
1
Pad Launches
564
Location Launches
12
Agency Launches
47
Orbital This Year